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Friendly   /frˈɛndli/  /frˈɛnli/   Listen
Friendly

adjective
1.
Characteristic of or befitting a friend.  "A friendly neighborhood" , "The only friendly person here" , "A friendly host and hostess"
2.
Inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile.  Synonyms: favorable, well-disposed.  "An amicable agreement"
3.
Easy to understand or use.  "A consumer-friendly policy" , "A reader-friendly novel"
4.
Of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally.  "He was accidentally killed by friendly fire"
noun
1.
Troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces.



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"Friendly" Quotes from Famous Books



... feathers of the flamingo is craft, the brightest plume that graces the warrior's brow. Are not your people brave? Yet does the friendly tree shield them while the hatchet is thrown. Who doubts the courage of Powhatan? Yet has the eye of darkness seen Powhatan steal to ...
— The Indian Princess - La Belle Sauvage • James Nelson Barker
... so reasonable, that Julian and his father gave up their weapons to the friendly cutler, an example which the dwarf followed, after a moment's hesitation, not caring, as he magnificently expressed it, to part so soon with the trusty friend which fortune had but the moment before restored to his hand. The man retired with the ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott
... the house and could see the friendly stars all my fears vanished. I know the marshes so well that I can find my way across them at any time. And in my heart I had the feeling that I had been brave and helped him. When I had thrown the knife into the sea from the breakwater ...
— The Shrieking Pit • Arthur J. Rees
... against any disadvantages in his external surroundings; for his horizon is limited to the present. Yesterday's hunger is quickly forgotten in to-day's plenty; the fatigue of the morning's toil vanishes in the evening's frolic; even the wounds of a cruel blow are readily healed by a friendly word. Unconscious of any disparity between himself and others, he is equally contented with his lot, whether his clothing be velvet or rags, whether his play-ground be a royal park or the streets ...
— Child-life in Art • Estelle M. Hurll
... inextricable cross roads, which terminated in a quagmire. In this slough of despond the unfortunate patache, from which we had descended, might have stuck for ever, but for the assistance of two shepherds, as wild in their attire, and as civil, as Don Quixote's friendly goatherds. By dint of their exertions and those of the floundering and groaning horse, the vehicle, which was too deeply imbedded in the muddy ruts to dread an overturn, was dragged out by main force; the driver sometimes wringing his hands in King Cambysses' vein, and sometimes strenuously applying ...
— Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone - Made During the Year 1819 • John Hughes


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