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friend⋅ly

  [frend-lee] adjective, -li⋅er, -li⋅est, adverb, noun, plural -lies.
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–adjective
1. characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.
2. like a friend; kind; helpful: a little friendly advice.
3. favorably disposed; inclined to approve, help, or support: a friendly bank.
4. not hostile or at variance; amicable: a friendly warship; friendly natives.
5. Computers. user-friendly.
–adverb
6. Also, friend⋅li⋅ly. in a friendly manner; like a friend.
–noun
7. a person who is in sympathetic relationship to oneself or one's side; one who shows no hostility.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME frendly, OE frēondlīc. See friend, -ly

Related forms:
friend⋅li⋅ness, noun

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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friend·ly   (frěnd'lē)   
adj.   friend·li·er, friend·li·est
  1. Of, relating to, or befitting a friend: friendly advice.
  2. Favorably disposed; not antagonistic: a government friendly to our interests.
  3. Warm; comforting.
    1. User-friendly.
    2. Informal Easy to understand or use for a specified agent. Often used in combination: a reader-friendly novel; a consumer-friendly policy.
adv.  In the manner of a friend; amicably.
n.   pl. friend·lies Informal
One fighting on or favorable to one's own side: "If I read this right, you're the only friendly we have there right now" (Tom Clancy).
friend'li·ly adv., friend'li·ness n.
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Friendly

Friend"ly\, a. [AS. fre['e]ndl[imac]ce.]

1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.

2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable.

In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. --Macaulay.

3. Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.

4. Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.

On the first friendly bank he throws him down. --Addison.

Syn: Amicable; kind; conciliatory; propitious; favorable. See Amicable.

Friendly

Friend"ly\, adv. In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends. [Obs.] --Shak.

In whom all graces that can perfect beauty Are friendly met. --Beau. & Fl.

Friendly

Friend"ly\, n. A friendly person; -- usually applied to natives friendly to foreign settlers or invaders.

These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style. --E. N. Bennett.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : friendly
Spanish: simpático, amigable,
German: freundlich,
Japanese: 友好的な
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Main Entry: friend·ly
Function: adjective
: agreeable to those affected : not hostile friendly takeover>
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