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neighborly

[ ney-ber-lee ]

adjective

  1. having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.


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Other Words From

  • neighbor·li·ness noun
  • un·neighbor·li·ness noun
  • un·neighbor·ly adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of neighborly1

First recorded in 1515–25; neighbor + -ly
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Example Sentences

People can and do act neighborly every day of the year, and other holidays already include a service component.

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The thriller, which came out in March 2016, follows an isolated woman with a traumatic past who suffers from anxiety, barely leaves her house and believes she witnessed something suspicious while practicing some neighborly espionage.

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She’s less alone, too, than those of us relying on the internet for social interactions, thanks to the symbiotic relationship between her and her tavern customers, each party benefiting from the other’s neighborly company.

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“They come in with this bunk science, and I still try to be neighborly instead of jumping all over them,” she says.

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So the idea that you would criminalize it, really harshly criminalize somebody that’s being neighborly because somebody literally can’t pick up or drop off their mail is pretty outrageous.

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Paul is right that we must deal with the Bundy crisis in the spirit of neighborly forbearance.

There was very little neighborly interaction between the separate fiefdoms of Kensington Palace.

Black orchestrates her outburst of neighborly frustration brilliantly.

A neighborly courtesy is the loaning of the key, to save a neighbor a journey upstairs.

This neighborly custom of sharing meat, when it is to be had for the killing, prevails in the northern woods.

At that, we were sometimes spoken to in neighborly greeting.

You have come a long distance to do a neighborly deed, and that deed has been generously completed.

The look of cold surprise that any one should venture to come near her grief sealed up the fountain of neighborly sympathy.

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