friendly

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
“
Torre said he didn't think the book would change what he characterized as a friendly relationship with A-Rod, and even said he thought there would "be a hug involved" the next time they saw each other.

View all »
Definitions (24)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (7)

  1. adjective Of, relating to, or befitting a friend: friendly advice.
  2. adjective Favorably disposed; not antagonistic: a government friendly to our interests.
  3. adjective Warm; comforting.
4 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (9)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (3)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (5)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • But there are challenges: It's not exactly family-friendly, and there's a little movie called —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
  • Bamdinos are as smart as they are eco-friendly, as they bring an added level of play to dining time with tots. —  INHABITAT
  • It seems eco-friendly is the way to be these days, and if you are looking for some new gadgets to lug out to the cottage this summer, this solar powered boat may go on your wish list .... —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
  • TerraCycle proudly offers an extremely eco-friendly, all-natural worm poop garden fertilizer, which is made from waste (organic waste fed to worms that make worm poop) and packaged in waste (used soda bottles collected across the country by school children) with a hose attachment on top.
  • But how greenhouse-friendly are these corporations really? —  newmatilda.com - Comments
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 186 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Suggestions Wordniks Suggest

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

pleasant ·  intelligent ·  new ·  polite

Used in the same contextWord Family

friendly:   friendlier
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (2)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from Middle English frendly, frendely, from Anglo-Saxon freóndlīc (= OFries. friondlīk= Dutch vriendelijk = Middle Low German vruntlik, vrentlik= Old High German friuntlīh, Middle High German vriuntlīch, German freundlich = Old Danish Swedish fryntlig), from freónd, friend, + -līc, -ly.
  2. from Middle English frendly, from Anglo-Saxon freóndlīce, adverb, from freóndlīc, adjective friendly; see friendly, adjective
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈfrɛndli/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a day.

Recently looked up

Lave · look-out · rakers · aeternam · refiner

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

these grunts every eight hours · haul it off to our darkest dungeon · send for a doctor · forget what witticism you were originally going to insert here because you've just banged your knee on your desk · the rest will come naturally