Comradely
adj, adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Having the characteristics of a comrade or of comradeship; companionable.
""Now, if you ever want to put anythin' out of sight, Julia," commented Ferd, with a comradely wink, "you'll know how to do it […]""
- 2 Of or relating to comradeship; between or among comrades.
"Heather was thinking not of the dead, but of the incorrigible living, of him whom she had striven hard, not with tears and common female wiles but with comradely devotion, to save from his worst enemy, himself."
- 1 heartily friendly and congenial wordnet
- 1 In the manner of a comrade. rare
"He smiled at her as he had before they were lovers; the breasts and thighs and backsides, knees, feet and arms comradely crowded together on the truck seemed to deny the reality of the physical presence he had lent her in a hotel room in Dar."
Example
More examples""Now, if you ever want to put anythin' out of sight, Julia," commented Ferd, with a comradely wink, "you'll know how to do it […]""
Etymology
From comrade + -ly.
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