Word Meanings - FRIENDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.

Additional info about word: FRIENDLY

1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3. Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state. 4. Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale. On the first friendly bank he throws him down. Addison. Syn. -- Amicable; kind; conciliatory; propitious; favorable. See Amicable.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRIENDLY)

• Amicable
• Friendly
• propitious
• favorable
• kind
• cordial
• neighborly
• sociable
• Companionable
• Pleasant
• affable
• convertible
• friendly
• easy
• agreeable
• gregarious
• Conciliate
• Win
• gain
• enlist
• pacify
• make friendly
• reconcile
• propitiate
• Favorable
• Permissive
• indulgent
• concessive
• partial
• fond
• liberal
• advantageous
• auspicious
• Gracious
• Affable
• courteous
• benignant
• civil
• condescending
• merciful
• tender
• gentle
• beneficent

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FRIENDLY)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to FRIENDLY)

• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• AUSPICIOUS
  1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
• CONCESSIVELY
  By way of concession.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• BENEFICENT
  , a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent.
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• BENEFICENTLY
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• PARTIALISM
  Partiality; specifically , the doctrine of the Partialists.
• MERCIFUL
  1. Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Ex. xxxiv. 6. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. Shak. 2. Unwilling to give
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• CORDIALNESS
  Cordiality. Cotgrave.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• PARTIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
• LIBERALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
• PERMISSIVE
  1. Permitting; granting leave or liberty. "By his permissive will." Milton. 2. Permitted; tolerated; suffered. Milton.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• REENLISTMENT
  A renewed enlistment.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• CAPACIFY
  To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.