What are some opposite words for unfriendly?
Antonyms for unfriendly
ʌnˈfrɛnd liun·friend·ly
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term unfriendly.
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
unfriendly
Antonyms:
accessible, affable, affectionate, amicable, brotherly, companionable, complaisant, cordial, favorable, fond, friendly, genial, hearty, kind, kindly, loving, neighborly, sociable, social, tender, well-disposedSynonyms:
adverse, alienated, antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, cold, contentious, disaffected, distant, estranged, frigid, hostile, ill-disposed, indifferent, inimical, unkind, warlike
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
unfriendly
Synonyms:
inhospitable, ungenial, unkind, disobliging
Princeton's WordNet
unfriendlyadjective
not easy to understand or use
"user-unfriendly"
Antonyms:
amiable, companionate, friendly, hospitable, palsy-walsy, informal, neighbourly, matey, affable, pally, hail-fellow-well-met, cozy, couthy, amicable, social, hail-fellow, chummy, cordial, neighborly, comradely, genial, intimate, couthieSynonyms:
uncongenial, hostile, inimicalunfriendlyadjective
not disposed to friendship or friendliness
"an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take"
Antonyms:
friendly, couthy, hospitable, comradely, companionate, cozy, amicable, couthie, cordial, neighbourly, hail-fellow-well-met, chummy, affable, matey, genial, amiable, intimate, hail-fellow, informal, neighborly, social, pally, palsy-walsySynonyms:
uncongenial, hostile, inimicalunfriendly, inimicaladjective
not friendly
"an unfriendly act of aggression"; "an inimical critic"
Antonyms:
companionate, genial, chummy, cozy, pally, hail-fellow, couthy, friendly, social, intimate, neighbourly, palsy-walsy, cordial, comradely, hospitable, amiable, hail-fellow-well-met, informal, neighborly, amicable, couthie, matey, affableSynonyms:
uncongenial, hostile, inimicalhostile, uncongenial, unfriendlyadjective
very unfavorable to life or growth
"a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"
Antonyms:
comradely, hail-fellow-well-met, palsy-walsy, chummy, hail-fellow, amiable, genial, cordial, matey, informal, couthy, social, friendly, couthie, hospitable, amicable, companionate, neighborly, neighbourly, pally, cozy, affable, intimateSynonyms:
uncongenial, hostile, incompatible, inimical
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
unfriendlyadjective
Synonyms:
hostile, ill-disposed, inimical, malign, unamicable, disaffected, alienated, estranged, antagonistic, unfavorable, adverse
Editors Contribution
cordially
in a warm and friendly way
he was greeted inhospitably by the bishop.
How to use unfriendly in a sentence?
Yuri Kochetkov/Pool -RRB- Putin:
Western countries aren’t only taking unfriendly actions against our country in the economic sphere, but top officials from leading NATO members made aggressive statements regarding our country.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev:
NATO's policy with regard to Russia has remained unfriendly and opaque. One could go as far as to say that we have slid back to a new Cold War, almost on an everyday basis we are called one of the most terrible threats either to NATO as a whole or to Europe, or to the United States.
I have seen and heard him be very unfriendly to a lot of people in this community, he was very angry, anytime I saw him.
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
I think a lot about the Department of Energy, because energy is my baby, oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the Earth for mankind's use, instead of relying on unfriendly foreign nations for us to import their resources, and if I were head of that.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#558 | social | |
#1139 | kind | |
#1254 | friendly | |
#3867 | accessible | |
#6100 | loving | |
#6740 | tender | |
#7210 | informal | |
#9197 | intimate | |
#11528 | favorable | |
#12984 | fond | |
#13039 | kindly | |
#15998 | cozy | |
#23927 | hearty | |
#32023 | affectionate | |
#36016 | cordial | |
#40140 | unfriendly | |
#43499 | hospitable | |
#49126 | amiable | |
#52005 | sociable | |
#57508 | genial | |
#57829 | brotherly | |
#60653 | amicable | |
#77365 | affable | |
#92085 | neighborly | |
#96971 | matey | |
#104117 | pally | |
#144711 | chummy | |
#152148 | neighbourly | |
#192098 | companionable | |
#293856 | complaisant |
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