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1. | [ adjective ] characteristic or befitting a friend | |
Examples: | "friendly advice" "a friendly neighborhood" "the only friendly person here" "a friendly host and hostess" |
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Related terms: | unfriendly affable favorable cozy favorable companionate neighborly social comradely couthie chummy warm social gracious amicable sociable congenial hospitable friendliness | |
2. | [ adjective ] favorably disposed; not antagonistic or hostile | |
Examples: | "a government friendly to our interests" "an amicable agreement" |
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Related terms: | amicable | |
3. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 28992 | |
4. | [ adjective ] (in combination) easy to understand or use | |
Examples: | "user-friendly computers" "a consumer-friendly policy" "a reader-friendly novel" |
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Related terms: | unfriendly combining_form | |
5. | [ adjective ] of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally | |
Examples: | "in friendly territory" "he was accidentally killed by friendly fire" |
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Related terms: | hostile | |
Similar spelling: |
Friend Freund friendless freehand frond friendship freehanded free_hand front_end Frandsen |