Definition of Friendly

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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

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard

I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.
Spike Milligan

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
William Glasser

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
William Glasser

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
William Glasser

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
Virginia Woolf

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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