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unneighbourly

unneighbourly adjective: not neighbourly; antisocial.

Adjective

unneighbourly (comparative more unneighbourly, superlative most unneighbourly)

  1. Not neighbourly; antisocial.
    • […]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout...1620, Giovanni Bocaccio, translated by John Florio, The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen, Isaac...
    • Mrs Inconſiderate, alſo replyed, ſaying, avvay vvith ſuch Fantaſtical Fools from the Tovvn, a good riddance, for my par[t], I ſay, of her. Should ſhe ſtay vvhere ſhe dvvels, and retain this her mind, vvho could live quietly by her? for ſhe vvill either be dumpiſh or unneighbourly, or talk of ſuch...1684, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. From This World to That which is to Come: The Second Part. […], London: […] Nathaniel Ponder […], →OCLC, page 17

Adverb

unneighbourly (comparative more unneighbourly, superlative most unneighbourly)

  1. In a way that is not neighbourly.

unneighbourly meaning in Urdu

unneighbourly in Urdu

بےمروتانہ, خلاف ادب

Forms of unneighbourly

Adjective
comparativemore unneighbourly
superlativemost unneighbourly
alternative formunneighborly
Adverb
comparativemore unneighbourly
superlativemost unneighbourly

Origin of unneighbourly

From un- + neighbourly.

Words formed from unneighbourly

Questions about unneighbourly

What does unneighbourly mean?
Unneighbourly means not neighbourly; antisocial.
What is unneighbourly in Urdu?
Unneighbourly in Urdu is بےمروتانہ, خلاف ادب. See Unneighbourly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is unneighbourly?
Unneighbourly can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near unneighbourly in the dictionary

  1. unneighbored
  2. unneighborliness
  3. unneighborly
  4. unneighboured
  5. unneighbourliness
  6. unneighbourly
  7. unnephrectomized
  8. unnerstand
  9. unnerstanding
  10. unnerstands
  11. unnerstood

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unneighbourly (page history and authors); unneighbourly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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