Mary looks unfriendly, but she is really very kind at heart.
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Unfriendly
//ʌnˈfɹɛn(d)li//
Synonyms for "unfriendly" (165 found)
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2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
12 entriessimilar
16 entriesTranslations
47 translations across 29 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- onvriendelik adj (not friendly; hostile)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἀνάρσιος adj (not friendly; hostile)
- ἄφιλος adj (not friendly; hostile)
Armenian
1 entries- անբարյացակամ adj (not friendly; hostile)
Bulgarian
3 entries- враждебен adj (not friendly; hostile)
- неблагосклонен adj (unfavorable)
- недружелю́бен adj (not friendly; hostile)
Catalan
2 entries- antipàtic adj (not friendly; hostile)
- hostil adj (unfavorable)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 不友好 adj (not friendly; hostile)
Danish
2 entries- ufavorabel adj (unfavorable)
- uvenlig adj (not friendly; hostile)
Dutch
1 entries- onvriendelijk adj (not friendly; hostile)
Esperanto
2 entries- malamika adj (not friendly; hostile)
- malamikema adj (not friendly; hostile)
Finnish
2 entries- epäystävällinen adj (not friendly; hostile)
- ynseä adj (not friendly; hostile)
French
1 entries- inamical adj (not friendly; hostile)
German
1 entries- unfreundlich adj (not friendly; hostile)
Hindi
1 entries- रूखा adj (not friendly; hostile)
Hungarian
1 entries- barátságtalan adj (not friendly; hostile)
Irish
1 entries- doicheallach adj (not friendly; hostile)
Japanese
1 entries- 不親切な adj (not friendly; hostile)
Korean
1 entries- 불친절하다 adj (not friendly; hostile)
Latin
2 entries- hostilis adj (not friendly; hostile)
- inimīcus adj (not friendly; hostile)
Low German
2 entries- schabbig adj (not friendly; hostile)
- unfründlich adj (not friendly; hostile)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- onfrëndlech adj (not friendly; hostile)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- uvennlig adj (not friendly; hostile)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- uvenleg adj (not friendly; hostile)
- uvennleg adj (not friendly; hostile)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- onfrintlich adj (not friendly; hostile)
Portuguese
2 entries- antipático adj (not friendly; hostile)
- hostil adj (not friendly; hostile)
Romanian
2 entries- neprietenos adj (not friendly; hostile)
- ostil adj (not friendly; hostile)
Russian
2 entries- недру́жественный adj (not friendly; hostile)
- недружелю́бный adj (not friendly; hostile)
Spanish
4 entries- antipático adj (not friendly; hostile)
- desagradable adj (not friendly; hostile)
- desfavorable adj (unfavorable)
- hostil adj (not friendly; hostile)
Tocharian B
1 entries- eñcare adj (not friendly; hostile)
Turkish
2 entries- düşmanca adj (not friendly; hostile)
- soğuk adj (not friendly; hostile)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Can you figure out why the boss is so unfriendly this week?
Source: tatoeba (36372)
Old homes, especially traditional Japanese ones, can be damp and unfriendly to modern life.
Source: tatoeba (239843)
He looked unfriendly at first.
Source: tatoeba (244047)
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