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say it: FREND-lee
friendly is an adjective and noun meaning "characteristic of or befitting a friend". It is pronounced /ˈfɹɛndli/ — FREND-lee. It carries 5 recorded senses.
characteristic of or befitting a friend
“friendly advice”
“a friendly neighborhood”
“the only friendly person here”
“a friendly host and hostess”
inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile
“a government friendly to our interests”
“well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States”
“a relaxed environment well-disposed to the appreciation of good food and fine wine”
easy to understand or use
“user-friendly computers”
“a consumer-friendly policy”
“a reader-friendly novel”
combining form
of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally
“in friendly territory”
“he was accidentally killed by friendly fire”
troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces
“friendlies came to their rescue”
military
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for friendly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.