friendly

Meanings

Adjective

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

Noun

• A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting etc.
• A person or entity on the same side in a conflict.

Adverb

• In a friendly manner, like a friend.

Related

Similar words

• amicably, friendlily

Opposite words

• hostile
• unfriendly

Narrower meaning words

• eco-friendly
• environmentally friendly
• family-friendly
• finger-friendly
• print-friendly
• printer-friendly
• radio-friendly
• tool-friendly
• user-friendly

Origin

• 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, West Frisian freonlik, Dutch vriendelijk, German Low German fründelk, frünnelk, German freundlich.
• From Middle English frendly, frendliche, from Old English frēondlīċe, equivalent to friend + -ly.