Friendly

/ˈfɹɛnd.li/ · adjective

Meaning

Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character..

Definitions by Sense

1. Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
2. Inviting, characteristic of friendliness.
3. Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.
4. (in compounds) Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun).
5. Without any hostility.
6. Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious.
7. (usually military) Of or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other bipolar confrontations, such as team sports.
8. (number theory) Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.

Example Sentences

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.

He gave a friendly smile.

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.

Synonyms for friendly

Antonyms for friendly

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Word Forms

• friendlier
• more friendly
• friendliest
• most friendly
• friendlies

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