Tainted vs Unfriendly - What's the difference?
tainted | unfriendly | Related terms |
corrupted or filled with imperfections.
(taint)
not friendly; hostile; mean
unfavourable
An enemy.
* 2005 , Ted Dekker, Thunder of Heaven (page 217)
* 2008 , Dennis Wengert, A Very Healthy Insanity (page 44)
Tainted is a related term of unfriendly.
As adjectives the difference between tainted and unfriendly
is that tainted is corrupted or filled with imperfections while unfriendly is not friendly; hostile; mean.As a verb tainted
is (taint).As a noun unfriendly is
an enemy.tainted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Hey, get that away from me! It was bought with tainted money.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "tainted" is often applied: food, meat, beef, pork, milk, water, fish, toys, love, evidence, money, reputation.Synonyms
* corrupt * impure * imperfectVerb
(head)unfriendly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Antonyms
* friendlyDerived terms
* user-unfriendlyNoun
(unfriendlies)- Sweep the valley compound and eliminate any unfriendlies you encounter.
- 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).