friendlier

ADJECTIVE

intimate, companionable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

affable affectionate amiable amicable attentive beneficial chummy cordial familiar favorable good helpful loving loyal neighborly peaceful receptive sympathetic welcoming

STRONG

close faithful kind sociable tender thick

WEAK

attached auspicious benevolent benign buddy-buddy civil clubby comradely conciliatory confiding convivial fond genial kindly on good terms outgoing peaceable propitious solicitous well-disposed

Antonyms

STRONGEST

aloof bad cold cool disadvantageous disagreeable disliking distant harmful hostile hurtful hurting ignorant injurious mean reserved surly unfriendly unhelpful unpleasant unsociable

STRONG

inaccurate loose unkind

WEAK

antagonistic incompatible uncompanionable unreceptive

Example Sentences

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friendlier

He also supports a friendlier approach to relations with Beijing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

And if the conventional wisdom about a candidate is a lot friendlier on that platform than on a competitor’s, I’d spend some extra time interrogating why that might be happening.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

Those challenges have allowed a few cases to proceed in state court, where jurors are often perceived as being friendlier to homeowners than private arbitrators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

Tolchin argued that the Adelanto immigration court “is a friendlier forum for DHS” and noted that four of the five immigration judges “have denial rates of asylum of almost 88 percent.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Lots of cities had started referring to their police forces as “public safety” departments, a phrase intended to promote a softer, friendlier image.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen