friendly
/ˈfɹɛnd.li/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.64 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
adj
adj
Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.
adj
Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun).
adj
Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious.
adj
Of or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other bipolar confrontations, such as team sports.
adj
Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.
Example Sentences
- "Your cat seems very friendly."
- "They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits."
- "Our friendliest carmates are a family from Armenia taking a vacation from the Georgian war."
- "He gave a friendly smile."
- "a user-friendly software program"
- "a dog-friendly café"
Etymology
From Middle English frendly, freendly, frendely, frendlich, from Old English frēondlīċ, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndlīkaz, equivalent to friend + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian früntelk, fjuntelk (“friendly”), West Frisian freonlik (“friendly”), Dutch vriendelijk (“friendly”), German Low German fründelk, frünnelk (“friendly”), German freundlich (“friendly”). Doublet of friendlike.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: frendly, frēondlīċ, *frijōndlīkaz, frēondlīċe
Inflected Forms
friendlier (comparative)
more friendly (comparative)
friendliest (superlative)
most friendly (superlative)
friendlies (plural)