noun
Meaning 1
The state of being unfriendly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
unfriendliness
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noun
Meaning 2
An unfriendly act; unfriendly acts or actions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
an unfriendly disposition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: friendliness
Broader terms: disposition, temperament
Narrower terms: hostility, ill will, aggression, misanthropy, uncongeniality, unneighborliness, inhospitableness
noun
Meaning 4
dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: friendliness
Broader terms: dislike
History
Etymology
From unfriendly + -ness. Compare Dutch onvriendelijkheid, German Unfreundlichkeit.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: враждебност (vraždebnost) — the quality of being unfriendly
- Danish: uvenlighed — the quality of being unfriendly
- German: Unfreundlichkeit — the quality of being unfriendly
- Hungarian: barátságtalanság — the quality of being unfriendly
- Low German: Unfründlichkeit — the quality of being unfriendly
- Norwegian Bokmål: uvennlighet — the quality of being unfriendly
- Norwegian Nynorsk: uvenlegheit — the quality of being unfriendly
- Norwegian Nynorsk: uvennlegheit — the quality of being unfriendly
- Swedish: ovänlighet — the quality of being unfriendly
- German: Unfreundlichkeiten — an unfriendly act, unfriendly acts / actions