friendly

Speech parts

1. friendly - Noun

2. friendly - Adjective

3. friendly - Adverb

5. friendly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.

Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable.

Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.

Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.

In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

kind amicable warm favorable helpful pleasant outgoing welcoming cordial kindly gracious gregarious good-natured courteous hospitable
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Antonyms

hostile unfriendly berber barbary feller bard
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Hypernyms

soldiery military personnel troops

Phrases with the word

friendly person brief friendly chat friendly reception friendly behavior non-eco-friendly become friendly

Derivatives

friendlier friendliest

Examples

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. Samuel Butler (novelist)

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. Bertrand Russell

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are. Gertrude Stein

A friendly word is like a spring day. Russian Proverb

A friendly person is never a good-for-nothing. Nigerian Proverb

Absence, and a friendly neighbor, washeth away love. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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