Excellent vs Friendly - What's the difference?

Excellent is a related term of friendly.

As adjectives the difference between excellent and friendly

is that excellent is of the highest quality; splendid while friendly is generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.

As adverbs the difference between excellent and friendly

is that excellent is (obsolete) excellently while friendly is in a friendly manner, like a friend.

As a noun friendly is

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

excellent

English

(wikipedia excellent)

Adjective

(en-adj)

Of the highest quality; splendid.

*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

Exceptionally good of its kind.

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Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.

*(David Hume) (1711-1776)

*:an excellent hypocrite

*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)

*:Their sorrows are most excellent .

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* excellence * excellently * excellentness

Adverb

(en adverb)

(obsolete) Excellently.

*, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:

Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis , hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].

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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).