unfriended

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adjective

Having no friends; friendless.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

unfriended1

adjectiveunfriended (comparative more unfriended, superlative most unfriended)

comparative more unfriended · superlative most unfriended

  1. Having no friends; friendless.

    […] his wondrous laudations and defendings of the unfriended Turner […]

    1857, London Quarterly Review, volume 7, page 498
    2 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 9

    Not 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

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of unfriend

Origin

unfriended · adjective

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishfriended
  9. Englishunfriended

From un- + friended.

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Chicago

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