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[frend-lee]

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adjective

characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.

like a friend; kind; helpful: a little friendly advice.

favorably disposed; inclined to approve, help, or support: a friendly bank.

not hostile or at variance; amicable: a friendly warship; friendly natives.

Computers. user-friendly.

adverb

Also, friend·li·ly. in a friendly manner; like a friend.

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noun

a person who is in sympathetic relationship to oneself or one's side; one who shows no hostility.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English frendly, Old English frēondlīc. See friend, -ly

Related forms

friend·li·ness, noun

pre·friend·ly, adjective

Synonyms
1. companionable, neighborly. 2. kindly, amiable, cordial, genial, affectionate, kind-hearted. 3. benevolent, well-disposed, helpful, favorable; advantageous, propitious.

Antonyms
3. antagonistic.

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Example Sentences

Fairbanks is a friendly community with extensive opportunities for outdoor recreational activities year round.

Customers come in to a friendly welcome, chat while he counts the cash and leave with a cheerful ade.

Easy tips for how to use more environmentally friendly fertilizers, harvest rainwater, and keep up with your composting.

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Fairbanks is a friendly community with extensive opportunities for outdoor recreational activities year round.

Customers come in to a friendly welcome, chat while he counts the cash and leave with a cheerful ade.

Easy tips for how to use more environmentally friendly fertilizers, harvest rainwater, and keep up with your composting.

The result is that more coffee farms will be needed and there is a better, more environmentally friendly way to farm.

In later years, his daughter described him as a friendly character, always full of fun and happiness.

Make your garden a more environmentally friendly space.

Both are friendly and outgoing, according to the notes clipped to their pictures.

Soybean-based biodiesel is more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels, a new study says.

Attempting to make greenhouses more environmentally friendly by cutting down on their energy use.

Greensulate is an environmentally friendly insulation made from mushrooms and agricultural byproducts.

Your can get an environmentally friendly car and an environmentally friendly washing machine.

While their responses have been overwhelmingly friendly and encouraging, they have also done nothing to allay my anxieties.

But you walk on, till you see a group of friendly faces.

It is easy to imagine her in that distant encounter-the same direct gaze, the same friendly face and flyaway hair.

His writing was clear, his tone respectful and friendly.

Female bats in captivity seem especially friendly toward new mothers.

Investors are still keen to buy stocks and funds that are ecologically friendly.

First the researchers need to find the genes responsible for creating friendly and aggressive behaviors.

The findings may hold the key to developing new, environmentally friendly insect repellents.

The selfish biocosm theory begins with the premise that the universe is life friendly.

Others are being farmed in ways that are not environmentally friendly.

He was friendly but aloof, a thoughtful fellow toiling in the shade of mystique.

Instead of a friendly orange blob, it resembles something that has escaped from a medieval torture chamber.

The area is so serene, and the people are so warm and friendly.

We live in a friendly neighborhood and know the parents of our kids' friends.

Friendly enough to not to close the door, non-attached enough to allow the financial markets room to thrive.

They described the meeting as a friendly affair, with each side acknowledging the other's contributions and value.

Marcos supposedly parked much of his wealth with friendly businessmen.

After a while they start to talk and get into a friendly conversation.

She thought it was cute and friendly until the day it attacked her and ripped her head open.

If you had a friendly break up and can see each other without trauma, then go for it.

Myriad special interests combined with state budget woes mire two environmentally friendly ballot initiatives.

Volcanoes are not a friendly environment to work in or around.

If she's the latter, she may be building a romantic or overly friendly image of the professor in her mind.

The increasingly crowded field includes many friendly rivals.

SciAm takes a look at new products, from environmentally friendly suede jackets to biodegradable toilet paper.

They are unremittingly friendly but without regard for one's privacy.

Get to the core of geography at this friendly and frequently-updated site.

Look for other, more environmentally friendly ways to generate electricity.

It's not friendly to fvck over a junior faculty member.

The little brown bat is really quite friendly and if you don't try to pick.

Like a people friendly stage set, its gently tilted floor fans out from the tower and city hall backdrop.

If it helps, pretend you are trying to explain this to your local friendly business owner.

They should to transition their operations into the newer methods of producing energy with safe, environmentally friendly methods.

He is gentle and friendly with children and generally with other dogs unless they are aggressive toward him.

It's not friendly to fvck over a junior faculty member clean.

Scientists are currently pursuing a variety of such devices to generate electricity in an environmentally friendly manner.

Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.

But all of them have to be calm and friendly despite others' ignorance, rudeness, or sloppiness.

There seems to be a general commercial lobby which sets out to make anything environmentally friendly uneconomic.

It's not friendly to fvck over a junior faculty member riptide.

Another shot had been fired in the battle between rival certifiers of environmentally friendly wood products.

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World English Dictionary

friendly (ˈfrɛndlɪ)

—*adj* , -lier, -liest
1.	showing or expressing liking, goodwill, or trust: a friendly smile
2.	on the same side; not hostile
3.	tending or disposed to help or support; favourable: a friendly breeze helped them escape

—n , -lier, -liest, -lies
4.	sport Also called: friendly match a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc

'friendlily

—*adv*

'friendliness

—n

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Word Origin & History

friendly

O.E. freondlic; see friend + -ly (1). Related: Friendliness.

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