Unfriendly vs Unkind - What's the difference?
unfriendly | unkind | 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)
(obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.
Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.
Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.
* 1950 July 3, Politicians Without Politics'', '' ,
* 1974 , Laurence William Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse , 3rd Edition,
* 2000 , Edward W. Said, On Lost Causes'', in ''Reflections on Exile and Other Essays ,
As adjectives the difference between unfriendly and unkind
is that unfriendly is not friendly; hostile; mean while unkind is having no race or kindred; childless.As a noun unfriendly
is an enemy.unfriendly
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* 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).
unkind
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(en-adj)- (Shakespeare)
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- Despite the bursitis, Dewey got in a good round of golf, though his cautious game inspired a reporter to make one of the week?s unkindest remarks: “He plays golf like he plays politics — straight down the middle, and short.”
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- We had to learn that to refuse such gifts, which represented serious sacrifice, was more unkind than to accept them.
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- In the strictness with which he holds this view he belongs in the company of the novelists I have cited, except that he is unkinder and less charitable than they are.
