Meanings
unfriended1
comparative more unfriended · superlative most unfriended
- Having no friends; friendless.
[…] his wondrous laudations and defendings of the unfriended Turner […]
1857, London Quarterly Review, volume 7, page 4982 more examples
Alone, if need be, alone and unfriended, we must advance, and do battle for the cause of God: alone and unfriended, and yet not alone, for He is with us, and His hosts are fighting on our side: […]
1858, Leopold John BERNAYS, Sir Henry HAVELOCK, Havelock, the Good Soldier. A sermon, etc, page 9Not another word could he be induced to utter, and he seemed as unfriended and one might say unfriendable as a frost-bitten Arctic explorer astray on an ice-floe.
1957, Van Wyck Brooks, “The Newness”, in Days of the Phoenix: The Nineteen-Twenties I Remember, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20
unfriended2
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of unfriend
Origin
unfriended · adjective
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishfriended
- Englishunfriended
Cite this entry
unfriended. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfriended
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