friendly

noun

match (usually of association football) between teams not part of a competition

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adjective

not hostile

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛnd.li/ / /ˈfɹɛn.li/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English frendly, freendly, frendely, frendlich, from Old English frēondlīċ, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndlīkaz, equivalent to friend + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian früntelk, fjuntelk (“friendly”), West Frisian freonlik (“friendly”), Dutch vriendelijk (“friendly”), German Low German fründelk, frünnelk (“friendly”), German freundlich (“friendly”). Doublet of friendlike.

Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
“Your cat seems very friendly.”
“They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.”
Inviting, characteristic of friendliness.
“He gave a friendly smile.”
Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.
“a user-friendly software program”
“a dog-friendly café”
Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun).
“The cobbled streets aren't very bike-friendly.”
“Organic farms only use soil-friendly fertilisers.”
Without any hostility.
“a friendly competition”
“a friendly power or state”
Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious.
“a friendly breeze or gale”
“Coarſe are his Meals, the Fortune of the Chaſe, / Amidſt the running Stream he ſlakes his Thirſt, / Toil's all the Day, and at th' approach of Night / On the firſt friendly Bank he throws him down, / Or reſts his Head upon a Rock 'till Morn: […]”
Of or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other bipolar confrontations, such as team sports.
“The soldier was killed by friendly fire.”
“It is clear that the firing of very heavy guns, or the enemy's fire in return, would very seriously interfere with an abbatis, or anything of that kind, and it will only be something of the lightest character, or something that is placed at a considerable distance from the friendly fire, the fire of the gun itself, that would remain.”
Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.
“friendly”
“friendly pairs”

adv

Etymology: From Middle English frendly, frendliche, from Old English frēondlīċe (“in a friendly manner”), equivalent to friend + -ly.

In a friendly manner; like a friend.
“And looke we friendly on them when they come: But if they offer word or violence, Weele fight fiue hundred men at armes to one, Before we part with our poſſeſſion: […]”
“And we cannot doubt, our Brothers in Physick [...] will friendly accept, if not countenance our endeavours.”

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noun

A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting, etc.
“This match is merely a friendly, so don't worry too much about it.”
“Brazil provided a different test from Germany and gave England lessons Southgate will store before he gets his squad together again for friendlies against the Netherlands in Amsterdam and at home to Italy in March.”
A person or entity on the same side as one's own in a conflict.
“These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style.”
“You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).”