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

Growth-stock valuations would get a friendlier discount rate.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Turkey is another large trading partner of Iran, according to ITC data, but it has a much friendlier relationship with the US than China.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Here the surroundings are less bleak, the library better, the prisoners friendlier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

The Kospi’s recovery this session, led by chip makers, shows that the AI bid is alive, but it is recovering from a heavy drawdown and still depends on a friendlier rates backdrop, the analyst notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

There was a part of me that wanted to be friendlier to Ocean, but sometimes it made me really, actually, physically uncomfortable when he was nice to me.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

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