FRIENDLIES Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

friendlies

noun

plural of friendly

as in friends

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Noun

The film opens on a beach, with Selvi and her friends flying kites, before moving into domestic interiors where her world narrows.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Once an account is claimed, family and friends can contribute up to $5,000 a year combined, while employers can add up to $2,500 annually.

— Fernanda Tronco, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of friends

Noun

The Sox even invoked images of Little League players enjoying some postgame ice cream with their buddies at the local Dairy Queen.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2026
Then Sean moves away and grows up to become a spy who, after wrapping up a mission involving smuggling a nuclear warhead for reasons unknown, decides to pay an impromptu visit to his tweenage buddies.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of buddies

Noun

As his college chums settled into respectable professions, Hawthorne shrank from the grim prospect of free enterprise.

— Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Commissioned by Mattel as a blatant weekly half-hour commercial for its popular toy line, the show pits He-Man and his heroic chums against the evil (but strangely inept) Skeletor in a battle for control of Castle Grayskull.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 5 July 2026

Definition of chums

Noun

But instead the sisters wind up confronting assassins, demons with human familiars, and revelations about their late mother’s place within Le Clan des Sorcières.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
Cats make wonderful friends and, for the witchy folks among us, maybe even familiars.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 28 Nov. 2025

Definition of familiars

Noun

Bruce Springsteen’s Friendship with Barack Obama Springsteen and then-senator Barack Obama became pals on the campaign trail in 2008.

— Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2026
So a terrorist problem more closely associated with Washington’s pals in Saudi Arabia was conveniently and strategically spread around.

— Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of pals

Noun

Ibrahim moves through the splintered dreams, among comrades who once shared a square, a sidewalk blanket, and a barricade.

— Abdelrahman ElGendy, Time, 6 Oct. 2026
During the May 27 Roscosmos EVA that featured cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, Fedyaev controlled the station’s European Robotic Arm (ERA) with both his comrades attached.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of comrades

Noun

Shirley gets one of her compadres in Mechanical, Ossie (Michael Younis), to send Juliette further into the Down Deep using their little dumbwaiter contraption.

— Noel Murray, Vulture, 24 July 2026
Spending two-plus hours of quality time with a randy demon and his dead compadres turns out to be fun.

— Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 4 Mar. 2026

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