friendly

About 20.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.

   Your cat seems very friendly.

2. adjective Inviting, characteristic of friendliness.

   He gave a friendly smile.

3. adjective Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.

   a user-friendly software program

4. adjective Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun).

   The cobbled streets aren't very bike-friendly.

5. adjective Without any hostility.

   a friendly competition

6. adjective Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious.

   a friendly breeze or gale

7. adjective 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.

8. adjective Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.

   friendly

Similar words

affable amicable genial amiable cordial well-disposed palsy-walsy hail-fellow-well-met couthie neighbourly

Often followed by

and to relations with terms societies manner way intercourse

Word family

friendlier friendlier with friendlies friendliest friendliest with friendlily friendlily with friendly with