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Flirt vs Friendly - What's the difference?

flirt | friendly |

As nouns the difference between flirt and friendly

is that flirt is flirtation while friendly is (sports) a game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting etc.

As an adjective friendly is

generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.

As an adverb friendly is

in a friendly manner, like a friend.

flirt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
  • * Addison
    • Several little flirts and vibrations.
  • * Edgar Allan Poe
    • With many a flirt and flutter.
  • One who flirts; especially a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
  • * Addison
    • Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.
  • An episode of flirting.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
    • They flirt water in each other's faces.
    to flirt a glove, or a handkerchief
  • To jeer at; to mock.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted .
  • *, II.27:
    • Asinius Pollio , having written many invectives against Plancus, staid untill he were dead to publish them. It was rather to flurt at a blind man, and raile in a dead mans eare, and to offend a senselesse man, than incurre the danger of his revenge.
  • To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
  • * 2012 , Lenora Worth, Sweetheart Reunion
    • Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal.
  • To blurt out.
  • * 1915 , Thornton W. Burgess, The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel , Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, Ch.XXI:
    • Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled.
  • (senseid)To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.
  • * 2006 , The Guardian , 21 April:
    • Dr Hutchinson, who told jurors that he had been married for 37 years and that his son was a policeman, said he enjoyed flirting with the woman, was flattered by her attention and was anticipating patting her bottom again—but had no intention of seducing her.

    Antonyms

    * ("to insinuate emotional affection"): belittle

    Synonyms

    * ("to insinuate emotional affection"): coquet, tease

    Adjective

    (-)
  • pert; wanton

    • Related terms

    * flirtatious

    See also

    * See also ----

    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.
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  • (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).