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friendly
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f??ndli/, /?f??nli/
Etymology 1
From Middle English frendly, freendly, frendely, frendlich, from Old English fr?ondl??, from Proto-Germanic *frij?ndl?kaz, 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”).
Adjective
friendly (comparative friendlier or more friendly, superlative friendliest or most friendly)
- Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
- Inviting, characteristic of friendliness.
- Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.
- Without any hostility.
- Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious.
- On the first friendly bank he throws him down.
- (military) Of or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other bipolar confrontations, such as team sports
- (number theory) Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.
- (in compounds) Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun).
Antonyms
- hostile
- unfriendly
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
friendly (plural friendlies)
- (sports) A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting etc.
- This match is merely a friendly, so don't worry too much about it.
- A person or entity on the same side in a conflict.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English frendly, frendliche, from Old English fr?ondl??e (“in a friendly manner”), equivalent to friend +? -ly.
Adverb
friendly (comparative more friendly, superlative most friendly)
- (archaic) In a friendly manner, like a friend.
Synonyms
- amicably, friendlily
Translations
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well-behaved
English
Etymology
well +? behaved
Adjective
well-behaved (comparative better-behaved or more well-behaved, superlative best-behaved or most well-behaved)
- (of a person or animal) Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour
- The boy is well-behaved and is seldom naughty.
- (mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties, especially: having a finite derivative of all orders at all points, and having no discontinuities.
Synonyms
- well-mannered
- seemly
Antonyms
- ill behaved
- (in mathematics): degenerate, pathological
Hyponyms
- polite
Derived terms
- well-behavedly
- well-behavedness
Translations
See also
- well-posed
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