Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unfriended

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English

Syllables: un-friend-ed
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having no friends; friendless.

verb

simple past and past participle of unfriend

Example Sentences

"[…] his wondrous laudations and defendings of the unfriended Turner […]"
"Alone, if need be, alone and unfriended, we must advance, and do battle for the cause of God: alone and unfriended, and yet not alone, for He is with us, and His hosts are fighting on our side: […]"
"Not another word could he be induced to utter, and he seemed as unfriended and one might say unfriendable as a frost-bitten Arctic explorer astray on an ice-floe."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English friended English unfriended From un- + friended.

Inflected Forms

more unfriended (comparative) most unfriended (superlative)

Derived Forms

unfriendedness

Questions

What does unfriended mean?: Having no friends; friendless.
Where does unfriended come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English friended English unfriended From un- + friended.

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