Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no friends.
- adjective Removed as a friend from another's social networking website.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lacking friends; not countenanced or supported.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wanting friends; not befriended; not countenanced or supported.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having no
friends ;friendless . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unfriend .
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Examples
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Each Woe and lamentation are the appropriate responses to news that the word "unfriended" has been added to the New Oxford American Dictionary.
Forbes.com: News Rick Segal 2011
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I was surprised to find that not only had I been "unfriended" by Jeremy Bird, but that I could no longer even find his profile on the FaceBook search engine.
Jeremy Bird - OFA Deputy Director - Respect, Empower, Include, "Unfriend" UPDATED! 2010
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Love the quick poll on your fron page "Have you" unfriended "anyone in your social network" ...... good poll (waaaaa).
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I was surprised to find that not only had I been "unfriended" by Jeremy Bird, but that I could no longer even find his profile on the FaceBook search engine.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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Seems the poor guy had been ditched by his girlfriend, who had also "unfriended" him on Facebook.
Is that right? Facebook triggers asthma attacks? Jennifer LaRue Huget 2010
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"He said he'd only 'unfriended' me to protect himself, because if someone flirted with me he would feel jealous," Mr. Garcia says.
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Although the promotion was popular, Facebook recently concluded it conflicted with the site's privacy guidelines, under which "unfriended" friends aren't directly notified.
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Seriously, I got "unfriended" by posting a Michael Jackson joke.
Giulia Rozzi: Defriended: The Politics Of Social Networking 2009
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Is that why Pat Davenport "unfriended" me on Facebook?
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They wait on the shore while the sea-birds take wing for Hellas, out beyond the barrier of the Dark-Blue Rocks and the great stretches of magical and 'unfriended' sea.
The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides 480? BC-406 BC Euripides 1911
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