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Unfriendly vs Insensitive - What's the difference?

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Unfriendly is a related term of insensitive.


As adjectives the difference between unfriendly and insensitive

is that unfriendly is not friendly; hostile; mean while insensitive is not expressing normal physical feeling.

As a noun unfriendly

is an enemy.

unfriendly

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • not friendly; hostile; mean
  • unfavourable
  • Antonyms

    * friendly

    Derived terms

    * user-unfriendly

    Noun

    (unfriendlies)
  • An enemy.
  • * 2005 , Ted Dekker, Thunder of Heaven (page 217)
  • Sweep the valley compound and eliminate any unfriendlies you encounter.
  • * 2008 , Dennis Wengert, A Very Healthy Insanity (page 44)
  • You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).

    insensitive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not expressing normal physical feeling
  • * 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
  • It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
  • Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic
  • * 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
  • Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very insensitive man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further.
  • * 1994, Jann Arden, "Insensitive" (song)
  • Oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home, / By the vagueness in your eyes, your casual good-byes, / By the chill in your embrace and the expression on your face, / That told me you might have some advice to give / On how to be insensitive .

    Synonyms

    * unaffected

    Antonyms

    * sensitive