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Proper vs Friendly - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between proper and friendly

is that proper is Suitable.friendly is generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.

As adverbs the difference between proper and friendly

is that proper is properly; thoroughly; completely while friendly is in a friendly manner, like a friend.

As a noun friendly is

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

proper

English

(wikipedia proper)

Alternative forms

* propre (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (lb) Suitable.
  • #Suited or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable.
  • #:
  • #*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • #*:The proper study of mankind is man.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
  • #Following the established standards of behavior or manners; correct or decorous.
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  • #*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
  • (lb) Possessed, related.
  • #(lb) Used to designate a particular person, place, or thing. Proper words are usually written with an initial capital letter.
  • #Pertaining exclusively to a specific thing or person; particular.
  • #*, II.1.3:
  • #*:They have a proper saint almost for every peculiar infirmity: for poison, gouts, agues.
  • #*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
  • #*:those high and peculiar attributeswhich constitute our proper humanity
  • #(lb) Belonging to oneself or itself; own.
  • #*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • #*:my proper son
  • #*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • #*:Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, / Betwixt true valour and an empty boast.
  • #*, II.4.1.ii:
  • #*:every country, and more than that, every private place, hath his proper remedies growing in it, particular almost to the domineering and most frequent maladies of it.
  • #*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), (A History of Western Philosophy) , I.20:
  • #*:Each animal has its proper' pleasure, and the ' proper pleasure of man is connected with reason.
  • #(lb) Portrayed in natural or usual coloration, as opposed to conventional tinctures.
  • #
  • (lb) Accurate, strictly applied.
  • #Excellent, of high quality; such as the specific person or thing should ideally be. (Now often merged with later senses.)
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  • #*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) VII:
  • #*:The same tyme was Moses borne, and was a propper childe in the sight of God, which was norisshed up in his fathers housse thre monethes.
  • #In the very strictest sense of the word (now often as postmodifier).
  • #*, Episode 16:
  • #*:Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper .
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  • Synonyms

    * correct, right, apt, prudent, sensible, fitting * appropriate, decent, good, polite, right, well-mannered * appropriate, just, honorable * comprehensive, royal, sweeping, intensive * (true) full, complete * complete, right (informal), total, utter

    Antonyms

    * incorrect, wrong, bad, imprudent, insensible * inappropriate, indecent, bad, impolite, wrong, ill-mannered, unseemly * inappropriate, unjust, dishonorable * partial, incomplete, superficial, slapdash * (true) incomplete

    See also

    * proper adjective * proper fraction * proper noun

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (Scotland) properly; thoroughly; completely
  • * 1964 , Saint Andrew Society (Glasgow, Scotland), The Scots magazine: Volume 82
  • Don't you think you must have looked proper daft?
  • (nonstandard, slang) properly
  • * 2012 , (Soufside), Hello (song)
  • When I meet a bad chick, know I gotta tell her hello
    talk real proper , but she straight up out the ghetto

    Statistics

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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.
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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).