neighborly

[ ney-ber-lee ]

adjective

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

Other Words From

• neighbor·li·ness noun
• un·neighbor·li·ness noun
• un·neighbor·ly adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of neighborly¹

First recorded in 1515–25; neighbor + -ly

Example Sentences

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

From Time

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.

From Time

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.

From Eater

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

From Time

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.

From Time

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

Black orchestrates her outburst of neighborly frustration brilliantly.

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• amiable
• considerate
• cordial
• gracious
• harmonious
• hospitable
• sociable