Friendly vs Agreeable - What's the difference?

Agreeable is a antonym of friendly.

As adjectives the difference between friendly and agreeable

is that friendly is generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character while agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.

As nouns the difference between friendly and agreeable

is that friendly is a game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting etc while agreeable is something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.

As an adverb friendly

is in a friendly manner, like a friend.

friendly

English

Adjective

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 relationship with something, as in user-friendly etc.

Without any hostility.

a friendly competition

a friendly power or state

* (1800-1859)

in friendly relations with his moderate opponents

Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious.

a friendly breeze or gale

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

On the first friendly bank he throws him down.

(military) 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.

(number theory) Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.

friendly''' numbers; '''friendly''' pairs; '''friendly n-tuples

Antonyms

* unfriendly * hostile

Derived terms

* family friendly * friendliness * friendly fire * Friendly Islands * radio-friendly * user-friendly

Adverb

(en adverb)

In a friendly manner, like a friend.

* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica :

And we cannot doubt, our Brothers in Physick [...] will friendly accept, if not countenance our endeavours.

Synonyms

* amicably, friendlily

Noun

(friendlies)

(sports) A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting etc.

''Even as friendlies , derbies often arouse strong emotions

A person or entity on the same side of a conflict.

* 2008 , Dennis Wengert, A Very Healthy Insanity (page 44)

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).

agreeable

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.

agreeable manners

agreeable remarks

an agreeable person

fruit agreeable to the taste

* (rfdate) (Oliver Goldsmith):

A train of agreeable reveries.

(colloquial) Willing; ready to agree or consent.

* (rfdate) (Hugh Latimer):

These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.

Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; .

* (rfdate) (w, Roger L'Estrange):

That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.

In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; (used adverbially)

Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

Synonyms

Noun

(en noun)

Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.

* 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)

The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.

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