unfriendable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ friendable.

Adjective

unfriendable (comparative more unfriendable, superlative most unfriendable)

  1. (informal) Not friendable.
    • 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.
    • 2013, Ransom Riggs, “Camp Dread or How to Survive a Shockingly Awful Summer”, in Rebecca Stern, Brad Wolfe, editors, Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays, New York, N.Y.: Roaring Brook Press, →ISBN, page 11:
      As far as she was concerned, I had experienced something new, and that had been the whole idea. That the new thing had been feeling like a giant unfriendable loser for two weeks was beside the point.
    • 2017, Maria K. Alexander, chapter 8, in Awaken My Heart (Tangled Hearts; 3), Adams Basin, N.Y.: The Wild Rose Press, →ISBN, page 125:
      It’s different for a girl. If you make friends with the wrong people, you’ll be unfriendable for the rest of high school.
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