| Main Entry: | amiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, agreeable |
Synonyms: |
affable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, buddy-buddy, charming, cheerful, clubby, complaisant, cool*, copacetic, cordial, cozy, delightful, downright neighborly, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, home cooking, kind, kindly, lenient, lovable, mellow, mild, obliging, palsy-walsy, pleasant, pleasing, princely, pussycat, responsive, right, righteous, sociable, sweet-tempered, swell*, tight*, warm, warmhearted, winning |
| Notes: | amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions, while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant 'kind' or 'lovely, lovable' and amicable first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign' |
Antonyms: |
crabby, disagreeable, gloomy, hateful, irritable, mean, quarrelsome, rude, surly, testy, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | chummy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly |
Synonyms: |
affectionate, buddy-buddy, close, confidential, constant, cozy, familiar, intimate, pally, palsy-walsy, thick* |
Antonyms: |
unfriendly, unsociable |
| Main Entry: | close |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intimate |
Synonyms: |
attached, buddy-buddy, chummy, confidential, cozy with, dear, devoted, familiar, inseparable, kissing cousins, loving, making it with, on top of each other, palsy-walsy, private, related, thick as thieves, thick with, thick* |
Antonyms: |
unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | companionable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly |
Synonyms: |
affable, amicable, buddy buddy, clubby, complacent, congenial, conversable, convivial, cordial, cozy, cozy with, familiar, genial, good-natured, gregarious, intimate, mellow, neighborly, outgoing, pally, palsy, sociable, social, tight, tight with |
Antonyms: |
antagonistic, foreign, opposing, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | cordial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, sociable |
Synonyms: |
affable, affectionate, agreeable, amicable, buddy-buddy, cheerful, clubby, companionable, congenial, convivial, cozy, earnest, genial, glowing, gracious, happy, heart-to-heart, heartfelt, hearty, invigorating, jovial, mellow, neighborly, palsy-walsy, polite, red-carpet, responsive, sincere, social, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted, welcoming, wholehearted |
Antonyms: |
aloof, cool, disagreeable, hostile, indifferent, inhospitable, uncordial, unfriendly, unpleasant, unsociable |
| Main Entry: | familiar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, bold |
Synonyms: |
affable, amicable, buddy-buddy, chummy, close, comfortable, confidential, cordial, cozy, dear, easy, forward, free, free-and-easy, fresh, genial, gracious, impudent, informal, intimate, intrusive, near, neighborly, nervy, obtrusive, officious, open, palsy, palsy-walsy, presuming, presumptuous, relaxed, sassy*, smart, snug, sociable, thick, tight, unceremonious, unconstrained, unreserved, wise |
Antonyms: |
aloof, cold, cool, distant, reserved, unapproachable, unfamiliar, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | friendly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intimate, companionable |
Synonyms: |
affable, affectionate, amiable, amicable, attached, attentive, auspicious, beneficial, benevolent, benign, buddy-buddy, chummy, civil, close, clubby, comradely, conciliatory, confiding, convivial, cordial, faithful, familiar, favorable, fond, genial, good, helpful, kind, kindly, loving, loyal, neighborly, on good terms, outgoing, peaceable, peaceful, propitious, receptive, sociable, solicitous, sympathetic, tender, thick, welcoming, well-disposed |
Antonyms: |
aloof, antagonistic, cold, cool, incompatible, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unreceptive, unsociable |
| Main Entry: | intimate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, devoted |
Synonyms: |
affectionate, bosom, buddy-buddy, cherished, chummy, close, clubby, comfy, confidential, cozy, dear, dearest, faithful, fast, fond, loving, mellow, mix, near, nearest, next, nice, regular, roommate, snug, warm |
Antonyms: |
cool, formal, incompatible, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | palsy-walsy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very friendly |
Synonyms: |
affectionate, buddy-buddy, chummy, close, clubby, confiding, fond, intimate, kissy-huggy, lovey-dovey, neighborly, pally, thick |
| Main Entry: | good-tempered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amiable |
Synonyms: |
affable, agreeable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, buddy-buddy, charming, cheerful, clubby, complaisant, congenial, cool*, copacetic, cordial, cozy, delightful, downright neighborly, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured |