unfriend
/ˈʌnfɹɛnd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To defriend; to remove from one's friends list (e.g. on a social networking website).
Example Sentences
- "It is even as I suspected, my lord, […] Ye have back-friends, my lord, that is, unfriends—or, to be plain, enemies—about the person of the Prince."
- "I wonder often it has not drawn her out of the grave to come and stand before me, and hear me tell her how I loved her. For, sir, we parted unfriends."
- "Thus many unfriends and some friends of the Capital agree upon the same policy with diverse and contradictory motives[…]"
- "For we desire no strangers in these lands to break the peace in which we live, and these folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can."
- "The unfriend betrays me, ignores me, denies me, breaks me down; the unfriend is against and tries to devour my personhood."
- ""I hope, sir, that we are not mutually Unfriended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us.""
Etymology
From Middle English unfreend, onfrend, equivalent to un- (noun/adjective prefix) + friend. Cognate with Scots unfrend (“unfriend”). Compare Old English unfriþmann, unwine.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈʌnfɹɛnd/
- British English: /ˈʌnfɹɛnd/