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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. causing hostility or loss of friendliness;
- Example: "her sudden alienating aloofness"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alienated; p. pr. & vb. n. Alienating.] 1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of. [1913 Webster] 2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. [1913 Webster] The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

alienating adj 1: causing hostility or loss of friendliness; "her sudden alienating aloofness"