noun
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A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting etc.
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This match is merely a friendly, so don't worry too much about it.
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A person or entity on the same side in a conflict.
adjective
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Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
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Your cat seems very friendly.
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Inviting, characteristic of friendliness.
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He gave a friendly smile.
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Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.
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a dog-friendly café
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Without any hostility.
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a friendly competition
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Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious.
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a friendly breeze or gale
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Of or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other bipolar confrontations, such as team sports
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The soldier was killed by friendly fire.
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Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.
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friendly
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(in compounds) Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun).
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Organic farms only use soil-friendly fertilisers.
Examples of friendly in a Sentence
You weren't exactly friendly.
The friendly male voice made her jump.
As he was starting away, the friendly innkeeper said, "Which way will you travel, Mr. Randolph?"
The family separated on the most friendly terms.
Thank goodness for Colorado hospitality—the friendly room clerk was more than willing to oblige a law enforcement agent.
But they are so good natured and friendly, one cannot help liking them.
Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly.
On Sunday after church they were feeding the horses when they began a friendly frolic.
I'm not feeling too friendly right now.
Dean asked, not in a friendly tone.
There was nothing remotely friendly or soft about Charles.
He was particularly friendly with King Emmanuel of Portugal on account of the latter's missionary enterprises in Asia and Africa.
Everywhere he saw friendly looks and heard friendly words.
Everyone was exceptionally friendly as hundreds of bicyclists wandered about, chatting and smiling, with a hint of nervous excitement in their voices.
Kutuzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few friendly words to officers he had known in the Turkish war, sometimes also to the soldiers.
Before leaving, Martha whispered something to Donnie and gave him a friendly pat on the back.
Equally friendly were the great boyar families.
A hearty handshake or a friendly letter gives me genuine pleasure.
Remember, Annie is a friendly ghost!
The friendly action was the beginning of a strong relationship between my two favorite women.
Her friendly gaze fell on Carmen.
In another corner two old bees are languidly fighting, or cleaning themselves, or feeding one another, without themselves knowing whether they do it with friendly or hostile intent.
It even appeared that they were friendly.
I know you were friendly with Natalie, and so... but I was always more friendly with Vera--that dear Vera.
He, like Jeremiah, was friendly to Nebuchadrezzar, regarding him as Yahweh's instrument for the chastisement of the nation.
The encyclical letter is accompanied by sixty-three resolutions (which include careful provision for provincial organization and the extension of the title "archbishop" to all metropolitans, a "thankful recognition of the revival of brotherhoods and sisterhoods, and of the office of deaconess," and a desire to promote friendly relations with the Eastern Churches and the various Old Catholic bodies), and the reports of the eleven committees are subjoined.
David's friendly relations with the Philistines find a parallel in Isaac's covenant with Abimelech.
To the north-west Israel bordered upon Tyre, with whom its relations were friendly.
In 1775 he was superseded in the empress's graces by Zavadovsky; but the relations between Catherine and her former lover continued to be most friendly, and his influence with her was never seriously disturbed by any of her subsequent favourites.
Cicero was on friendly terms with both him and Roscius, the equally distinguished comedian, and did not disdain to profit by their instruction.
Though Syracuse remained friendly, and the colonies in the N.W.
Champlain at once established friendly relations with the Indians and explored the St Lawrence to the rapids above Montreal.
Nay, thou knowest how to make even the rough smooth, and to bring order out of disorder; and things not friendly are friendly in thy sight.
Social work of a varied character forms a large part of the operations of the local councils, and the Free Church Girls' Guild has a function similar to that of the Anglican Girls' Friendly Society.
Third, the day will come when the farm of the future will make a healthier, less expensive, more ecologically friendly, fresher, and better-tasting product.
He had left Moscow when Boris was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took Boris by the hand with a friendly smile.
Then he took his place in the first row of the stalls and sat down beside Dolokhov, nudging with his elbow in a friendly and offhand way that Dolokhov whom others treated so fawningly.
At another spot he noticed a Russian soldier laughingly patting a Frenchman on the shoulder, saying something to him in a friendly manner, and Kutuzov with the same expression on his face again swayed his head.
The atmosphere is clubby but friendly, with a large, dark wooden bar separated from the dining room.
Served in a low-key atmosphere and by friendly staff, the cuisine really is superb.
All eateries have friendly staff and informal dining.
This lively, family-friendly restaurant is reasonably priced and casual dress is appropriate for this friendly establishment.
Almost two hundred years old, this tavern establishment provides friendly service and proximity to a number of fantastic wineries.
Cabot, with a large following, entered the Parana and established a settlement just above the mouth of the river Carcaranal, to which he gave the name of San Espiritu, among the Timbu Indians, with whom he formed friendly relations.
The Romans knew as little about Istakhr as the Greeks had done about Persepolis - and this in spite of the fact that for four hundred years the Sassanians maintained relations, friendly or hostile, with the empire.
Cook examined the bay in the pinnace, and landed several times; but by no endeavour could he induce the natives to hold any friendly communication with him.
However doubtful such conjectures concerning his intentions may be, it is certain that immediately after his coronation Charles sought to establish friendly relations with Constantinople, and even suggested a marriage between himself and Irene, as he had again become a widower in 800.
Removed by friendly hands, for the relief of his sufferings, to the priory of St Marcel, near Chalon-sur-Saone, he died on the 21st of April 1142.
Mayor's show in London is the most conspicuous survival; the processions connected with royal coronations and with court ceremonies generally; the processions of friendly societies, so popular in Great Britain and America; processions organized as a demonstration of political or other opinions; processions forming part of the ceremonies of public worship. In a narrower sense of "going forth, proceeding," the term is used in the technical language of theology in the phrase "Procession of the Holy Ghost," expressing the relation of the Third Person in the Triune Godhead to the Father and the Son.
The first of these maintained that the government should be essentially Rumanian, and, while maintaining friendly relations with foreign Powers, should in no wise allow them to interfere with interal affairs.