unfriendly

unfriendly
adj
1. aloof, distant, cool, cold, unamicable, unamiable, uncongenial, Scot. fremd; unsociable, unneighborly, inhospitable, unaccommodating, ungracious; unkind, unkindly, unsympathetic, ill-disposed, antipathetic; hostile, antagonistic, aggressive, belligerent, bellicose; mean, crabbed, peevish, snappish, disagreeable; ugly, spiteful, surly, sour, malicious, malevolent; combative, contentious, fractious, quarrelsome, disputatious; estranged, on the outs, not on speaking terms.
2. inimical, harmful, unfavorable, unpropitious, inauspicious; lowering, bleak, threatening.

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