Friendly

a.	1.	Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.
	2.	Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. - Macaulay.
	3.	Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.
	4.	Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale. On the first friendly bank he throws him down. - Addison.
adv.	1.	In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends. In whom all graces that can perfect beauty Are friendly met. - Beau. & Fl.
n.	1.	A friendly person; - usually applied to natives friendly to foreign settlers or invaders. These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style. - E. N. Bennett.
	2.	(Mil.) A member of one's own military forces, or of allied forces.

Adj.	1.	friendly - characteristic of or befitting a friend; "friendly advice"; "a friendly neighborhood"; "the only friendly person here"; "a friendly host and hostess" Antonyms: unfriendly - not disposed to friendship or friendliness; "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take"
	2.	friendly - favorably disposed; not antagonistic or hostile; "a government friendly to our interests"; "an amicable agreement"
	3.	friendly - easy to understand or use; "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a reader-friendly novel" Antonyms: unfriendly - not easy to understand or use; "user-unfriendly"
	4.	friendly - of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally; "in friendly territory"; "he was accidentally killed by friendly fire" Antonyms: hostile - not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally; "hostile naval and air forces"

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