Synonyms for unfriendly
ʌnˈfrɛnd liun·friend·ly

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1. unfriendlyadjective

   Antonyms:
   friendly

2. unfriendlyadjective

   Antonyms:
   friendly

3. unfriendlyadjective

   Antonyms:
   friendly

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1. unfriendly

   Synonyms:
   adverse, alienated, antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, cold, contentious, disaffected, distant, estranged, frigid, hostile, ill-disposed, indifferent, inimical, unkind, warlike

   Antonyms:
   accessible, affable, affectionate, amicable, brotherly, companionable, complaisant, cordial, favorable, fond, friendly, genial, hearty, kind, kindly, loving, neighborly, sociable, social, tender, well-disposed

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1. unfriendly

   Synonyms:
   inhospitable, ungenial, unkind, disobliging

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. unfriendlyadjective

   not easy to understand or use

   "user-unfriendly"

   Synonyms:
   uncongenial, hostile, inimical

   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

2. unfriendlyadjective

   not disposed to friendship or friendliness

   "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take"

   Synonyms:
   uncongenial, hostile, inimical

   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

3. unfriendly, inimicaladjective

   not friendly

   "an unfriendly act of aggression"; "an inimical critic"

   Synonyms:
   uncongenial, hostile, inimical

   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

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"

   Synonyms:
   uncongenial, hostile, incompatible, inimical

   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

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1. not kind

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

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1. unfriendlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   unkind, hostile, inimical, malevolent, antagonistic

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1. unfriendlyadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "unfriendly":

   hostile

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How to use unfriendly in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Samantha Maness:

   I have seen and heard (Hicks) be very unfriendly to a lot of people in this community.

3. Dmitry Peskov:

   The relations now have hit the bottom, there are certain consequences of the unfriendly measures taken against our country and the retaliatory measures taken by us.

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.