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UNCORDIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does uncordial mean?
• UNCORDIAL (adjective)
The adjective UNCORDIAL has 1 sense:
1. lacking warmth or friendliness
Familiarity information: UNCORDIAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking warmth or friendliness
Context example:
looked uncordial as we approached
Similar:
unfriendly (not disposed to friendship or friendliness)
Context examples
The same manners, however, which recommended Mrs. John Dashwood to the good opinion of Lady Middleton did not suit the fancy of Mrs. Jennings, and to HER she appeared nothing more than a little proud-looking woman of uncordial address, who met her husband's sisters without any affection, and almost without having anything to say to them; for of the quarter of an hour bestowed on Berkeley Street, she sat at least seven minutes and a half in silence.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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