unfriended

[uhn-fren-did]

adjective

without friends; not befriended.

Origin of unfriended

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

unfriend

[uhn-frend]

verb (used with object)

to remove (a person) from one's list of friends, or contacts, on a social media website.

Sometimes de·friend [dee-frend] /diˈfrɛnd/,

Origin of unfriend

2005–10; un-² + friend (in the sense “to add to one's list of contacts”)

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Examples from the Web for unfriended

Contemporary Examples of unfriended

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

Historical Examples of unfriended

Then he was but a penniless, monk-bred lad, unknown and unfriended.
The White Company
Arthur Conan Doyle
"Ye are enough to bring about the fall of one unfriended man," Gudruda said.
Eric Brighteyes
H. Rider Haggard
We have not been unfriended either, since she was permitted to come to us.
The College, the Market, and the Court
Caroline H. Dall
He was literally alone, unfriended, penniless, in a strange country.
Bits of Blarney
R. Shelton Mackenzie
Sometimes I should like to hail some of these unfriended spirits, but I haven't the courage.
April Hopes
William Dean Howells

British Dictionary definitions for unfriended

unfriended

adjective

rare without a friend or friends; friendless

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Word Origin and History for unfriended

unfriend

in the Facebook sense, attested from November 2007, from un- (1) "not" + friend. Related: Unfriended; unfriending. A noun unfriend "enemy" is recorded from late 13c., chiefly in Scottish, and was still in use in the 19th century.