| friendly | |
| 1. adj. Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character. | |
| Your cat seems very friendly. | |
| 2. adj. Inviting, characteristic of friendliness. | |
| He gave a friendly smile. | |
| 3. adj. Having an easy relationship with something, as in user-friendly etc. | |
| 4. adj. Without any hostility. | |
| a friendly competition | |
| a friendly power or state | |
| 5. adj. Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious. | |
| a friendly breeze or gale | |
| 6. adj. (military) 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. | |
| 7. adj. (number theory) Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy. | |
| friendly numbers; friendly pairs; friendly n-tuples | |
| 8. adj. (in compounds) Not damaging to, or compatible with (the compounded noun) | |
| The cobbled streets aren't very bike-friendly. | |
| Organic farms only use soil-friendly fertilisers. | |
| Our sandwiches are made with dolphin-friendly tuna. | |
| 9. adv. (archaic) In a friendly manner, like a friend. | |
| 10. n. (sports) A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting etc. | |
| Even as friendlies, derbies often arouse strong emotions | |
| 11. n. A person or entity on the same side in a conflict. | |
