unfriended

English

Etymology 1

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.

Adjective

unfriended (comparative more unfriended, superlative most unfriended)

1. Having no friends; friendless.
   • 1857, London Quarterly Review, volume 7, page 498:

     […] his wondrous laudations and defendings of the unfriended Turner […]

   • 1858, Leopold John BERNAYS, Sir Henry HAVELOCK, Havelock, the Good Soldier. A sermon, etc, page 9:

     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: […]

   • 1957, Van Wyck Brooks, “The Newness”, in Days of the Phoenix: The Nineteen-Twenties I Remember, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20:

     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.

Derived terms

• unfriendedness

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

English unfriend

English -ed

English unfriended

From unfriend + -ed.

Verb

unfriended

1. simple past and past participle of unfriend

Anagrams

• reinfunded