Unfriendly vs Insensitive - What's the difference?
unfriendly | insensitive | Related terms |
not friendly; hostile; mean
unfavourable
An enemy.
* 2005 , Ted Dekker, Thunder of Heaven (page 217)
* 2008 , Dennis Wengert, A Very Healthy Insanity (page 44)
Not expressing normal physical feeling
* 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic
* 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
* 1994, Jann Arden, "Insensitive" (song)
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
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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).
insensitive
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Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- 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.
- 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 .
