Usually means: Making others feel isolated, estranged.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. alienating: Merriam-Webster
  2. alienating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. alienating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Alienating, alienating: Wordnik
  5. alienating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. alienating: Wiktionary
  7. Alienating, alienating: Dictionary.com
  8. alienating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Alienating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. alienating: Rhymezone
  11. Alienating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. alienating: FreeDictionary.org
  13. alienating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. alienating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. alienating: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. alienating: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alienating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See alienate as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alienating)

▸ adjective:  Tending to alienate.

Similar:
antagonistic, antagonize, aversive, rejective, avertive, separative, antipathetic, adversive, disaffected, hostile, more...

Opposite:
inclusive, welcoming, accepting, open

Types:
disaffecting, distant, emotionless, indifferent, reserved, standoffish, unapproachable, uncommunicative, more...

Adjectives:
less, more, self, non, utter, further, inherently, very, french, culturally

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Similar:
antagonistic, antagonize, aversive, rejective, avertive, separative, antipathetic, adversive, disaffected, hostile, more...

Opposite:
inclusive, welcoming, accepting, open

Types:
disaffecting, distant, emotionless, indifferent, reserved, standoffish, unapproachable, uncommunicative, more...

Adjectives:
less, more, self, non, utter, further, inherently, very, french, culturally

Colors:
    gray,     olive,     dark green,     mustard,     taupe, more...



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