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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unfriendly \Un*friend"ly\, adjective
1. Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor.
2. Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health. -- {Un*friend"li*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unfriendly
adjective
1: not easy to understand or use; "user-unfriendly" [ant: {friendly}]
2: not disposed to friendship or friendliness; "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take" [ant: {friendly}]
3: lacking warmth of feeling; "a chilly greeting"; "an unfriendly manner" [syn: {chilly}]
4: not friendly; "an unfriendly act of aggression"; "an inimical critic" [syn: {inimical}]
5: very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes" [syn: {hostile}, {uncongenial}] [also: {unfriendliest}, {unfriendlier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "unfriendly": adversary, adversative, adverse, aggressive, alien, allergic, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, autistic, averse, bashful, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, chill, chilly, clashing, close, closed, cold, combative, competitive, con, conflicting, contentious, contradictory, contrary, cool, counter, cross, disaccordant, disaffected, disenchanted, disinclined, displeased, dissentient, dissociable, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, fractious, frosty, full of fight, hawkish, hostile, icy, ill, incompatible, inhospitable, inimical, insociable, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, martial, militant, militaristic, military, mopey, mopish, morose, negative, noncooperative, nongregarious, not charmed, obstinate, offensive, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, overthwart, perverse, pugnacious, put off, quarrelsome, recalcitrant, refractory, repugnant, rival, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, self-contained, self-sufficient, snug, socially incompatible, soldierlike, soldierly, strained, sullen, tense, trigger-happy, truculent, unamiable, unamicable, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, uncongenial, uncooperative, uncordial, unfavorable, ungenial, ungracious, unharmonious, unhospitable, unneighborly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, unpropitious, unreceptive, unsociable, unsocial, warlike, warmongering, warring
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