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1. Characteristic of or befitting a friend
   "friendly advice"; "a friendly neighbourhood"; "the only friendly person here"; "a friendly host and hostess"
    
2. Easy to understand or use
   "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a reader-friendly novel"
    
3. Of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally
   "in friendly territory"; "he was accidentally killed by friendly fire"
    
4. Inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile
   "a government friendly to our interests";
   - well-disposed, well disposed

1. (military) troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces
   "friendlies came to their rescue"

Derived forms: friendlier, friendliest, friendlies

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: military personnel, soldiery, troops

Antonym: hostile, unfriendly

Encyclopedia: Friendly, Michael