unfriended

English

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From unfriend +‎ -ed.

Verb

unfriended

  1. simple past and past participle of unfriend

Anagrams

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