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Synonyms for unfriendly

The synonym for unfriendly recorded in this bank is hostile, in the sense "very unfavorable to life or growth". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for unfriendly

hostileadjective, in the sense "very unfavorable to life or growth"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day unfriendly is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, Ridgeline

very unfavorable to life or growth

The unfriendly environment at high altitudes.

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The true synonym

hostile

Same sentence, swapped: The hostile environment at high altitudes.

Close but different

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Where unfriendly turns up in the game

unfriendly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play unfriendly

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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