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ALIENATING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does alienating mean?
• ALIENATING (adjective)
The adjective ALIENATING has 1 sense:
1. causing hostility or loss of friendliness
Familiarity information: ALIENATING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing hostility or loss of friendliness
Context example:
her sudden alienating aloofness
Similar:
antagonistic (arousing animosity or hostility)
Context examples
These villains have coaxed this unhappy lady to London, after first alienating her from her faithful maid.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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