friendly
Part of speech: adj
noun
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
military
number-theory
politics
sciences
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English frendly, freendly, frendely, frendlich, from Old English frēondlīċ, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndlīkaz, equivalent to friend + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian früntelk, fjuntelk (“friendly”), West Frisian freonlik (“friendly”), Dutch vriendelijk (“friendly”), German Low German fründelk, frünnelk (“friendly”), German freundlich (“friendly”). Doublet of friendlike.
Base: friend
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: friendlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more friendly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: friendliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most friendly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: friendlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more friendly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most friendly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
pos: adj
examples: Your cat seems very friendly.
They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.
Our friendliest carmates are a family from Armenia taking a vacation from the Georgian war.
gloss: Inviting, characteristic of friendliness.
pos: adj
examples: He gave a friendly smile.
gloss: Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.
pos: adj
examples: a user-friendly software program
a dog-friendly café
the use of environmentally friendly packaging
The inter-working of the Bodensee-Toggenburg, Swiss South-Eastern and Swiss Federal Railways is of a most friendly kind.
Hariri even nominated Hezbollah-friendly Sleiman Frangieh for the presidency, which by tradition is held by a Maronite Christian; but Hezbollah and Aoun held out, insisting that Aoun would be president or there would be no president at all.
Older cryptocurrencies with regulatory overhang including Ripple's XRP and TRX were among the biggest gainers over the past month as Donald Trump's election victory promises a friendlier regulatory environment towards digital assets.
gloss: Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun).
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
examples: The cobbled streets aren't very bike-friendly.
Organic farms only use soil-friendly fertilisers.
Our sandwiches are made with dolphin-friendly tuna.
An offbeat pizza restaurant, which also serves pasta and salads, and bills itself as low-fat and heart-friendly. Has over forty different designer pizza toppings, such as smoked salmon, sour cream and caviar.
gloss: Without any hostility.
pos: adj
examples: a friendly competition
a friendly power or state
in friendly relations with his moderate opponents
gloss: Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious.
pos: adj
examples: a friendly breeze or gale
Coarſe are his Meals, the Fortune of the Chaſe, / Amidſt the running Stream he ſlakes his Thirſt, / Toil's all the Day, and at th' approach of Night / On the firſt friendly Bank he throws him down, / Or reſts his Head upon a Rock 'till Morn: […]
gloss: Of or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other bipolar confrontations, such as team sports.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: The soldier was killed by friendly fire.
It is clear that the firing of very heavy guns, or the enemy's fire in return, would very seriously interfere with an abbatis, or anything of that kind, and it will only be something of the lightest character, or something that is placed at a considerable distance from the friendly fire, the fire of the gun itself, that would remain.
The slaughter of one's own troops by being fired into by their friends in rear. We are very much concerned over the question of avoiding loss from the enemy's bullets while passing through the danger zone, but what have we done to avoid our bravest fellows, the survival of the fittest, those who have gotten to the front and have held on to hard-won positions—what have we done to avoid their being shot to pieces by friendly fire? Absolutely nothing that we have ever heard of—and yet this is one of the most serious problems that confronts the leader of troops. Courage before the enemy will quail before a fire from the rear.
gloss: Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.
pos: adj
examples: friendly
friendly pairs
friendly n-tuples
gloss: A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting, etc.
pos: noun
examples: This match is merely a friendly, so don't worry too much about it.
Brazil provided a different test from Germany and gave England lessons Southgate will store before he gets his squad together again for friendlies against the Netherlands in Amsterdam and at home to Italy in March.
gloss: A person or entity on the same side as one's own in a conflict.
pos: noun
examples: These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style.
You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).
"What's coming?" "Dunno yet. Cindy! Active scanning! Pulse hard, but don't cook any friendlies."
Reports from SMS Kaiser indicate scouting destroyers attacked and destroyed a large submarine to the north. Hipper orders the destroyers to be more careful; the High Seas Fleet is approaching the U-boat patrol line, and he has a feeling they've just sunk a friendly.
gloss: In a friendly manner; like a friend.
pos: adv
examples: And looke we friendly on them when they come:
But if they offer word or violence,
Weele fight fiue hundred men at armes to one,
Before we part with our poſſeſſion: […]
And we cannot doubt, our Brothers in Physick [...] will friendly accept, if not countenance our endeavours.
Synonyms: affectionate
amiable
bonhomous
amicable
chummy
companionable
congenial
cordial
facile
familiar
friendly
genial
hospitable
matey
personable
simpatico
welcoming
Antonyms: hostile
unfriendly
non-friendly
nonfriendly
brusque
standoffish
Related words: agreeable
friend
kindly
polite
sociable
Derived words: biofriendly
ecologically friendly
envirofriendly
enviro-friendly
find a friendly bush
friendlihead
friendlihood
friendliness
friendly amendment
friendly fire
friendly fraud
friendly giant
Friendly Hills
friendlyish
Friendly Islands
friendly lead
friendly match
friendly name
friendly number
friendly society
friendly suit
friendly URL
guest-friendly
heterofriendly
make friendly
Officer Friendly
overfriendly
poz friendly
search-engine-friendly
superfriendly
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