SYNONYMS OF FRIENDLY IN LDOCE:
a) Friendly – behaving towards someone in a way that shows you like them and are ready to talk to them or help them;
b) Amicable – an amicable agreement, relationship etc is one in which people feel friendly towards each other and do not want to quarrel;
c) Neighbourly – behaving in a friendly and helpful way towards the people who live next to you or towards the countries that are next to you;
d) Cordial – friendly but quite polite and formal;
e) Amiable – friendly and easy to like;
f) Genial – friendly and happy;
g) Affable – friendly and easy to talk to [= pleasant];
h) Sociable – someone who is sociable is friendly and enjoys being with other people;
i) Approachable –friendly and easy to talk to;
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Word
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friendly
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amicable
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neighbourly
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cordial
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PMW
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70.9
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7
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0.6
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0.7
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Nominal Collocates
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area, aunt, connection, dispatch, faces, gestures, humans, invasion, passion, relations, societies, spirit
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agreement, companions, debate, exchange, grant, relationship, settlement, situation, team, terms
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association, act, behavior, concern, dispute, help, news, relations, support, visits
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atmosphere, discussions, meeting, reception, relations, relationships, welcome
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Selected adverbial collocates
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almost, always, apparently, both, clearly, deceptively, environmentally, extremely, fairly, quite, relatively, still, very
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always, fairly, less, more, most, quite, reasonably, so, very
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less, more, very
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Always, entirely, most, particularly, very
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SOME REFLECTIONS:
1. Amicable relates most to business, politics, trade and services.
2. Friendly is predominantly connected with human emotions.
3. Neighbourly is used in the limited choice of situations, usually closely connected with neighbor relations.
4. Cordial is used in more formal situations than friendly and usually relates to interpersonal relations.
Paralinguistic distribution patterns:
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Word
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Friendly
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Amicable
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Neighbourly
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Cordial
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Medium
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m_pub , to_be_spoken, m_unpub, book
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m_unpub, periodical, book
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Book, periodical, speech
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m_pub , periodical, book
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Domain
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W_world_affairs, W_imaginative
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W_soc_science, W_world_affairs, S_cg_leisure
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W_soc_science, S_cg_business, W_belief_thought
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W_world_affairs, W_leisure, W_imaginative
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Genre
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W_advert,
W_newsp_other_science
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W_newsp_other_commerce, W_admin, W_newsp_other_arts
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W_fict_drama, W_newsp_brdsht_nat_social, W_non_ac_soc_science
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W_advert, W_non_ac_polit_law_edu, W_biography
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Link
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Warm-hearted
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friendly, kind, and always willing to help
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collocates
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account, benevolence, celebration, character, personality, people
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link
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Well-disposed
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feeling friendly towards a person or positive about an idea or plan
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collocates
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audience, person, reader
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link
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Buddy-buddy
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informal especially American English; to be very friendly with someone
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collocates
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Movie, picture, series
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link
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