Probably the worst f**king place on this Earth. Happens normally to caring, nice guys. Girl examples are rare, but not unheard of. In most cases, the guy loves the girl, and cares about her greatly. However, due to this action, today's female will often see this as a friend-like behavior, or not realize the love he has for her. The male does everything for the girl, would always be there for her, and yet the girl doesn't seem to give two shits about his side of the story. He has continually listen to her moan and bitch about her asshole boyfriend, and how she wish she had a caring, nice one. This is normally where the male either excuses himself to go wallow in self pity, or explodes in anger at the female, confessing his love for the girl in the process. In this case, the talk usually ends with "You're a nice, caring guy, but you're more like a friend/brother to me." Which confuses the hell out of the guy, because she was just complaining about wanting a nice, caring boyfriend. All in all, a hell on earth for nice guys.

A term used by incredibly butthurt little boys in relation to the fact that the girl they like doesn't want to fuck them. It's an excuse the little boy makes to make the girl look like she's doing something wrong when the little boy is really just over egotistical and/or an asshurt sore loser. The little boy just doesn't want to accept the fact the girl doesn't want him.

This is the metaphorical "zone" where Women place Men after men do the following thing(s): Talk to her every day, compliment her a lot, invite her to places, buy her food, comfort her when she is sad, listen to her when she is angry, standing up for her, tell her she's beautiful, tell her she's everything, texting her all night when she wants to talk.

After doing any of the above listed things, the woman WILL take you for granted and go fuck a random douche bag who treats her wrong.

Also, this comes with the famous "You're a nice guy but I think we should just be friends" speech.

A term used to vilify a woman for excercising her right to say no. One day the male gender just decided that if you're friends with a woman or nice to her that she's obligated to date you and if she doesn't she's a horrible person. Women are put in the friend zone too, but society vastly ignores this fact. It's usually guys who go after extremely attractive women, and when they're rejected they think of this woman as shallow even though he himself is shallow for only pursuing women he sees as beautiful or pretty.

The place a good guy dread and the gays love if a guy is a good friend and has made it to this zone that means that the woman is too stupid to figure out this is usually the best guy to be with

The worst place one can possibly be in when they have feelings for someone. It is where the person you are romantically interested in cares about you, but not in a romantic way.

Effectively, when a man has been "fucked" by a woman...metaphorically speaking, of course.
Emotionally the equivalent of being kicked in the testicles...everyday (because you see the person who's the reason why you're in the friend zone everyday, don't you?).
As of now, modern science has been unable to find a cure.