different between unfriendly vs parochial

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?f??n(d)li/

Etymology 1

From Middle English unfrendly, unfrendli, unfrendely, from Old English *unfr?ondl?? (suggested by derivative unfr?ondl??e (“in an unfriendly manner; unfriendly”, adverb)), equivalent to un- +? friendly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uunfrüntelk, uunfjuntelk (“unfriendly”), West Frisian ûnfreonlik (“unfriendly”), Dutch onvriendelijk (“unfriendly”), German Low German unfrünnelk (“unfriendly”), German unfreundlich (“unfriendly”), Faroese ófryntligur (“unfriendly”), Icelandic ófrýnilegur (“ugly; disturbing”).

Adjective

unfriendly (comparative unfriendlier or more unfriendly, superlative unfriendliest or most unfriendly)

1. Not friendly; hostile; mean.
2. Unfavourable.

Antonyms

• friendly

Derived terms

• user-unfriendly

Related terms

• unfriend

Translations

Noun

unfriendly (plural unfriendlies)

1. An enemy.
   • 2005, Ted Dekker, Thunder of Heaven (page 217)

     Sweep the valley compound and eliminate any unfriendlies you encounter.

   • 2008, Dennis Wengert, A Very Healthy Insanity (page 44)

     You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).

Etymology 2

From Middle English unfrendli, from Old English unfr?ondl??e (“in an unfriendly manner”), equivalent to unfriend +? -ly.

Adverb

unfriendly (comparative unfriendlier or more unfriendly, superlative unfriendliest or most unfriendly)

1. in an unkind or unfriendly manner; not as a friend

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman parochial and its source Late Latin parochialis, an alteration of paroecialis (“of a church province”), from paroecia, from Hellenistic Greek ???????? (paroikía, “stay in a foreign land”), later “community, diocese”, from Ancient Greek ???????? (pároikos, “neighbouring, neighbour”), from ????- (para-) + ????? (oîkos, “house”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p?????k??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p???o?ki.?l/

Adjective

parochial (comparative more parochial, superlative most parochial)

1. Pertaining to a parish.
2. Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.

   The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel.

   Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.

   • 1918, 1st of February, "Why I Joined The Army", an article in London's Daily Express by Daniel Desmond Sheehan

     But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage.

   • 1969, T.C. Smout: A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830, p 341:

     Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial.

Derived terms

• parochial school
• parochial vicar
• parochialism
• parochially

Translations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin parochialis. Compare the inherited term paroissial.

Adjective

parochial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular parochiale)

1. parochial

Descendants

• ? English: parochial