What is the difference between unfriend and friend?
unfriend | friend | Antonyms |
One who is not a friend; an enemy.
* 1822 , Scott, Nigel :
* 1916 , William Edwin Chilton, John Downey Works, Fiscal relation between the United States and the District of Columbia
* 1999 , Kees Waaijman, John Vriend, The mystical space of Carmel :
(rare) To sever as friends.
* 1659 , Thomas Fuller, The Appeal of Injured Innocence
(Internet) To defriend; to remove from one's friends list (eg on a social networking website).
* 2007 , Mia Consalvo, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Internet Research Annual: Volume 4
A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
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A boyfriend or girlfriend.
An associate who provides assistance.
A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted
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, title= A person who backs or supports something.
(informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
(colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
(computing, programming) In object-oriented programming, a function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
* 1991 , Tom Swan, Learning C++
* 2001 , Stephen Prata, C++ primer plus
* 2008 , D S Malik, C++ Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design
(obsolete) A paramour of either sex.
(obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
* 2006 , David Fono and Kate Raynes-Goldie, "
* 2006 , Kevin Farnham and Dale G. Farnham, Myspace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens And Parents , How-To Primers, ISBN 0977883353, page
Friend is a antonym of unfriend.
As nouns the difference between unfriend and friend
is that unfriend is one who is not a friend; an enemy while friend is a person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.As verbs the difference between unfriend and friend
is that unfriend is to sever as friends while friend is to act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.As a proper noun Friend is
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Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Ye have back-friends, my lord, that is, un-friends , or to be plain, enemies.
- Thus many unfriends and some friends of the Capital agree upon the same policy with diverse and contradictory motives
- The unfriend' betrays me, ignores me, denies me, breaks me down; the ' unfriend is against and tries to devour my personhood.
Synonyms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- "I hope, sir, that we are not mutually Unfriended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us."
- "I asked her why, she said it was because I didn't comment, and I shrugged and said whatever. I didn't unfriend her."
Synonyms
* defriendAntonyms
* friend * befriendfriend
English
(Friendship)Noun
(en noun)The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",
- But don't take the following sections as an endorsement of friends'. Top C++ programmers avoid using ' friends unless absolutely necessary.
- In that case, the function needn't (and shouldn't) be a friend .
- To make a function be a friend to a class, the reserved word
friendprecedes the function prototype
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Synonyms
* (person whose company one enjoys) bud (qualifier), buddy (qualifier), chum (British), mate (British), pal, crony, amigo, bro * (boyfriend or girlfriend) boyfriend, girlfriend, lover * (person with whom you are acquainted) acquaintance * (person who provides assistance) ally * (person who backs something) admirer, booster, champion, protagonist, supporter * (form of address used in warning someone) buster, mate (British), pal, buddy * See alsoAntonyms
* (person whose company one enjoys) enemy, foe, nemesis (nonstandard) * (person who provides assistance) enemy, foeUsage notes
* We usually make a friend'', or ''make friends with someone. SeeDerived terms
* a friend in need is a friend indeed * best friend * befriend * bosom friend * boy friend * boyfriend * circle of friends * close friend * fair-weather friend * false friend * four-legged friend * * friend of mine * friend of ours * friend with benefits * friendish * friendless * friendly * Friends * friendship * friends list * friendsome * friend zone * girl friend * girlfriend * good friend * identification friend or foe * lady friend * man's best friend * old friend * penfriend, pen friend, pen-friend * schoolfriendVerb
(en verb)- Lo sluggish Knight the victors happie pray: / So fortune friends the bold [...].
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- The difference between responses to the statement, "If someone friends' me, I will '''friend''' them," and "If I '''friend''' someone, I expect them to ' friend me back," is telling.
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- One of the most used features of MySpace is the practice that is nicknamed "friending." If you "friend " someone, then that person is added to your MySpace friends list, and you are added to their friends list.
