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Unfriendly vs Forbidding - What's the difference?

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Unfriendly is a related term of forbidding.


As adjectives the difference between unfriendly and forbidding

is that unfriendly is not friendly; hostile; mean while forbidding is highly unpleasant or disagreeable.

As nouns the difference between unfriendly and forbidding

is that unfriendly is an enemy while forbidding is the act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.

As a verb forbidding is

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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).

    forbidding

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • highly unpleasant or disagreeable
  • threatening or menacing

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
  • * William Shakespeare
    • But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him.