Another word for unfriendly
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Adjective
Feeling or showing unfriendliness
- Injurious or harmful in effect; adverse:
- Unfriendly; hostile:
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy:
- Feeling or showing enmity or ill will:
- Being in opposition; opposed:
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Another word for unfriendly
Modifier
Hostile
- simple past tense and past participle of turn against
- Impossible to reconcile:
- A person, especially a member of a group, who will not compromise, adjust, or submit.
- One of two or more conflicting ideas or beliefs that cannot be brought into harmony.
- Injurious or harmful in effect; adverse:
- Unfriendly; hostile:
- living apart because no longer in a loving or amicable relationship
- showing antagonism; acting in opposition
- Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.
- Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.
- Present participle of conflict.
- Of, involving, or determined by competition:
- Liking competition or inclined to compete:
- Relating to the inhibition of enzyme activity that results from the reversible combination of an enzyme with an alternate compound and prevents normal substrate binding.
- Belligerent; hostile.
- Of or relating to war; martial.
- Indicative of or threatening war.
- Opposed, as in character or purpose:
- Opposite in direction or position:
- Moving in the opposite direction at a fixed interval:
- Placed or located directly across from something else or from each other:
- Facing the other way; moving or tending away from each other:
- Being the other of two complementary or mutually exclusive things:
- In a direction or course opposite to:
- So as to come into forcible contact with:
- In contact with so as to rest or press on:
- having a bad disposition; malicious or malevolent
- unfriendly, unkindly, or unfavorable (toward) or unreceptive (to)
- Resentful and rebellious, especially against authority.
- Acting in opposition; opposing.
- Being, of having an opponent; not unopposed.
- Simple past tense and past participle of oppose.
Lacking friendly qualities
- Having a taste characteristic of that produced by acids; sharp, tart, or tangy.
- Made acid or rancid by fermentation.
- Having the characteristics of fermentation or rancidity; tasting or smelling of decay.
- Arousing or apt to arouse suspicion; questionable:
- Tending to suspect; distrustful:
- Expressing suspicion:
- Irritable and perverse in disposition; ill-tempered.
- Difficult to understand; complicated.
- Difficult to read; cramped:
- Displaying no hospitality; unfriendly.
- Unfavorable to life or growth; hostile:
- Not disposed to seek the company of others; not sociable.
- Not conducive to social exchange:
- Emotionally reserved or indifferent:
- Distant or uninvolved:
- Querulous or discontented.
- Ill-tempered.
- Contrary; fractious.
- Bitter and sharp in language or tone; rancorous:
- Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults:
- Intended to entrap or confuse, as in an argument:
- Eliciting or deserving hatred.
- Feeling or showing hatred:
- Very unpleasant or unappealing:
- Full of, characterized by, or inclined to feel indignant ill will.
- Desiring vengeance; vindictive:
- Characterized by or stemming from a desire for revenge:
- Serving to exact vengeance:
- To be used to convey; denote:
- To act as a symbol of; signify or represent:
- To intend to convey or indicate:
- Having the nature of or resulting from malice; deliberately harmful; spiteful:
- Done with malice.
- Filled with, prompted by, or showing spite; malicious.
- Tending to metastasize:
- Virulent or threatening to life:
- Having or showing ill will; malicious:
- Reluctant; unwilling.
- Given to quarreling; contentious.
- Marked by quarreling.
- Eager or disposed to fight.
- Petty or nagging criticism; carping.
- Disposed to find fault; critical.
- Exhibiting no charity or generosity.
- Unfair or unkind:
- Feeling, expressing, or characterized by envy:
- having a bad disposition; malicious or malevolent
- unfriendly, unkindly, or unfavorable (toward) or unreceptive (to)
- Brusque or stern in manner or appearance:
- Hoarse; harsh:
- Not compatible or sympathetic, as in character.
- Not appropriate; unsuitable.
- Not pleasing; disagreeable.
- Shunning the society of others; not sociable.
- Hostile to or disruptive of the established social order; marked by or engaging in behavior that violates accepted mores:
- Antagonistic toward or disrespectful of others; rude.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- Characterized by a hatred or mistrustful scorn for humankind.
- Sullenly ill-humored; gruff.
- Threatening, as of weather conditions; ominous:
- Arrogant; domineering.
- Resembling or similar to a bear in appearance or manner.
- Causing, expecting, or characterized by falling prices or declining economic conditions.
- Tending to censure; critical.
- Expressing censure.
- Tending to complain or grumble; peevish or grumpy.
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