unfriended

[ uhn-fren-did ]

/ ʌnˈfrɛn dɪd /

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adjective

without friends; not befriended.

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Origin of unfriended

First recorded in 1505–15; un-¹ + friend + -ed³

Words nearby unfriended

unfounded, unfranked income, unfreeze, unfrequented, unfriend, unfriended, unfriendly, unfrock, unfroze, unfruitful, unfulfilled

How to use unfriended in a sentence

Eight percent have blocked, unfriended or hidden someone because they argued about politics with someone the user knows.
Unfriending Over Politics|Howard Kurtz|March 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Woman, divorced from home, wanders unfriended like a waif upon the wave.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources|James Wood
Though Burns for the first day or two after his arrival wandered about companionless, he was not left long unfriended.
Robert Burns|Principal Shairp.
It looked sunken and curiously alien, as if its possessor felt herself unfriended of all the world.
The Precipice|Elia Wilkinson Peattie

Then came that moment of sheer physical sickness at his closer vision of the pack of wolves ravening below the unfriended figure.
The Messenger|Elizabeth Robins
Though ‘remote,’ we are neither ‘unfriended,’ ‘melancholy,’ nor (I may add) ‘slow.’
The Personal History of David Copperfield |Charles Dickens

British Dictionary definitions for unfriended

unfriended

/ (ʌnˈfrɛndɪd) /

adjective

rare without a friend or friends; friendless

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