friendly
//ˈfɹɛnd.li//
Forms
- Comparative
- friendlier
- Superlative
- friendliest
- Comparative
- more friendly
- Superlative
- most friendly
- Plural
- friendlies
Definitions
1.Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
- Our friendliest carmates are a family from Armenia taking a vacation from the Georgian war.
- Your cat seems very friendly.
2.Inviting, characteristic of friendliness.
- He gave a friendly smile.
3.Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.
- The inter-working of the Bodensee-Toggenburg, Swiss South-Eastern and Swiss Federal Railways is of a most friendly kind.
4.Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun).
- The cobbled streets aren't very bike-friendly.
- Organic farms only use soil-friendly fertilisers.
- Our sandwiches are made with dolphin-friendly tuna.
1.A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting, etc.
- 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.
2.A person or entity on the same side as one's own in a conflict.
- "What's coming?" "Dunno yet. Cindy! Active scanning! Pulse hard, but don't cook any friendlies."
- These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style.
1.In a friendly manner; like a friend.
- And we cannot doubt, our Brothers in Physick [..] will friendly accept, if not countenance our endeavours.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2767
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English frendly, freendly, frendely, frendlich, from Old English frēondlīċ, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndlīkaz, equivalent to friend + -ly.