friendly

1. Characteristic of or befitting a friend (synset 301078338)
   "friendly advice"; "a friendly neighborhood"; "the only friendly person here"; "a friendly host and hostess"
   also:

   • congenial - suitable to your needs
   • gracious - characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit
   • hospitable - disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity
   • amicable - characterized by friendship and good will
   • social - living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups
   • sociable - inclined to or conducive to companionship with others
   • warm - psychologically warm; friendly and responsive
   tells us about: friendliness - a friendly disposition
   similar to:

   • affable, amiable, cordial, genial - diffusing warmth and friendliness
   • chummy, matey, pally, palsy-walsy - (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals
   • companionate - like a companion
   • comradely, hail-fellow, hail-fellow-well-met - heartily friendly and congenial
   • couthie, couthy - (chiefly Scottish) agreeable and genial
   • cozy, informal, intimate - having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere
   • neighborly, neighbourly - exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor
   • social - marked by friendly companionship with others
2. Inclined to help or support;
   Not antagonistic or hostile (synset 301249700)
   "a government friendly to our interests"; "well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States"; "a relaxed environment well-disposed to the appreciation of good food and fine wine"
   similar to: amicable - characterized by friendship and good will
   same as: well disposed, well-disposed
3. Easy to understand or use (synset 301081683)
   "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a reader-friendly novel"
   domain usage: combining form - a bound form used only in compounds
4. Of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally (synset 301081326)
   "in friendly territory"; "he was accidentally killed by friendly fire"

1. Troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces (synset 108414446)
   "friendlies came to their rescue"
   referred to in: armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation
   is a type of: military personnel, soldiery, troops - soldiers collectively

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