different between unfriendly vs taxonomy

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

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

Translations