1. Welcoming and pleasant in manner; showing kindness and warmth
   "the only friendly person here"; "a friendly host and hostess"; "friendly advice"; "a friendly neighbourhood"
    
2. Inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile
   "a government friendly to our interests";
   - well-disposed, well disposed
    
3. Easy to understand or use
   "a reader-friendly novel"; "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"
    
4. Of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally
   "in friendly territory"; "he was accidentally killed by friendly fire"
    
5. Favourable or advantageous
   "The company got friendly coverage in the press"

1. (military) troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces
   "friendlies came to their rescue"
    
2. [Brit] A sports contest played for practice or demonstration rather than as part of a competition
   "The friendly gave rookies a chance to prove themselves";
   - exhibition game, practice game, exhibition match

Derived forms: friendlier, friendlies, friendliest

See also: affable, amiable, amicable, chummy [informal], companionate, comradely, congenial, cordial, cosy [Brit, Cdn], couthie [UK, dialect], couthy [UK, dialect], cozy [N. Amer], friendliness, genial, gracious, hail-fellow, hail-fellow-well-met, hospitable, informal, intimate, matey [Brit, informal], maty [Brit, informal], neighborly [US], neighbourly [Brit, Cdn], pally [informal], palsy-walsy [informal], sociable, social, warm

Type of: game, military personnel, soldiery, troops

Antonym: hostile, unfriendly

Encyclopedia: Friendly, Michael