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Definition of Friendly
Friendly

Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.

Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable.

Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.

Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.

In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends.

A friendly person; -- usually applied to natives friendly to foreign settlers or invaders.

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Friendly Quotations

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mohandas Gandhi

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand Russell

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Gertrude Stein

Friendly Translations

friendly in Afrikaans is vriendelik
friendly in Danish is venlig
friendly in Dutch is voorkomend, lief, aardig, vriendelijk
friendly in French is aimable, avenante, amiable, amical, affable, liant
friendly in German is befreundetem, freundliche
friendly in Latin is comis
friendly in Norwegian is vennskapelig, vennlig
friendly in Spanish is amistoso, risue o


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