unfriended

unfriended — 形容詞

1. without any friends or social connections, often because other people have not m

1.形容詞C1
釋義

沒朋友的

沒有朋友、孤獨的

without any friends or social connections, often because other people have not made an effort to welcome or include you

例句

When Christopher moved to a new town, he felt completely unfriended and lonely.

Christopher 搬到新鎮上時，覺得自己完全沒朋友、非常孤單。

predicative: feel + unfriended

Élise described how unfriended she felt after her college friends all moved away.

Élise 描述她的大學好友全都搬走後，自己有多麼孤單沒朋友。

predicative: feel + (how) unfriended

同義詞
  • friendless

    more common and neutral in register; 'friendless' can apply to any situation, while 'unfriended' has a literary tone

  • alone

    broader in meaning; focuses on physical solitude rather than lacking friends specifically

  • companionless

    more formal and less common; emphasizes absence of any companion rather than just friends

反義詞
  • befriended

    direct antonym; describes someone who has been welcomed as a friend

  • popular

    strongly contrasting; describes someone with many friends and social connections

文法句型

be/feel/seem + unfriended (predicative)

用法筆記

Formal or literary in register; this sense is distinct from the modern verb 'unfriend' (to remove someone from a social-media contacts list), which shares the same spelling when used in past-participle form.

常見錯誤

❌After our fight, Keiko looked completely unfriended on Facebook.' (adjective wrongly applied to social-media action)
✅After our fight, Keiko unfriended me on Facebook, and I saw her post through a mutual friend.
💡The adjective 'unfriended' describes a state of having no friends; for removing someone from a friends list on social media, use the verb 'unfriend'.