friendly
/ˈfɹɛnd.li/ adjective B2- Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character. · Your cat seems very friendly.
- Inviting, characteristic of friendliness. · He gave a friendly smile.
- Having an easy or accepting relationship with something. · a user-friendly software program· a dog-friendly café
- Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun). · The cobbled streets aren't very bike-friendly.· Organic farms only use soil-friendly fertilisers.
- Without any hostility. · a friendly competition· a friendly power or state
- Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious. · a friendly breeze or gale
- Of or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other bipolar confrontations, such as team sports. · The soldier was killed by friendly fire.
- Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy. · friendly· friendly pairs
Comparative friendlier · Superlative friendliest
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Go, my son—go, my dear Gérard, and by your obedience to my paternal orders, or, if you prefer it, friendly counsels, we will keep you in your place.
“Patent-leathers and Square-toes came in the same cab, and they walked down the pathway together as friendly as possible—arm-in-arm, in all probability.
The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.
“Upon my word,” said Caderousse, from whose mind the friendly treatment of Dantès, united with the effect of the excellent wine he had partaken of, had effaced every feeling of envy or jealousy at Dantès’ good fortune,—“upon my word, Dantès is a downright good fellow, and when I see him sitting there beside his pretty wife that is so soon to be.
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