What are some opposite words for unfriendly?

Antonyms for unfriendly
ʌnˈfrɛnd liun·friend·ly

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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  1. unfriendlyadjective

    Antonyms:
    friendly

  2. unfriendlyadjective

    Antonyms:
    friendly

  3. unfriendlyadjective

    Antonyms:
    friendly

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. unfriendly

    Synonyms:
    inhospitable, ungenial, unkind, disobliging

Princeton's WordNet1.5 / 2 votes

  1. 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, couthie

    Synonyms:
    uncongenial, hostile, inimical

  2. unfriendlyadjective

    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-walsy

    Synonyms:
    uncongenial, hostile, inimical

  3. unfriendly, 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, affable

    Synonyms:
    uncongenial, hostile, inimical

  4. hostile, 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, intimate

    Synonyms:
    uncongenial, hostile, incompatible, inimical

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. unfriendlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    hostile, ill-disposed, inimical, malign, unamicable, disaffected, alienated, estranged, antagonistic, unfavorable, adverse

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. cordially

    in a warm and friendly way

    he was greeted inhospitably by the bishop.

    Submitted by anonymous on November 24, 2020  

How to use unfriendly in a sentence?

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Samantha Maness:

    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.

  4. Walter Bagehot:

    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.

  5. Sarah Palin:

    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.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#558social
#1139kind
#1254friendly
#3867accessible
#6100loving
#6740tender
#7210informal
#9197intimate
#11528favorable
#12984fond
#13039kindly
#15998cozy
#23927hearty
#32023affectionate
#36016cordial
#40140unfriendly
#43499hospitable
#49126amiable
#52005sociable
#57508genial
#57829brotherly
#60653amicable
#77365affable
#92085neighborly
#96971matey
#104117pally
#144711chummy
#152148neighbourly
#192098companionable
#293856complaisant

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