Friendly and Unofficial

Friendly

Friendly adjective - Having or showing kindly feeling and sincere interest.

Unofficial and friendly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unofficial" instead an adjective "Friendly".

Nearby Words: friend, friendliness, friendship

Unofficial

Unofficial adjective - Not having official authority or sanction.

Friendly and unofficial are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Friendly" instead an adjective "Unofficial".

Nearby Word: unofficially

Both words in one sentence

  • Anime / Girls Und Panzer Der Film Retcon: To the Maginot spin-off manga, as Momo in the movie mentions getting her "first kill in an official match" whereas she actually got a kill in the Maginot spin-off, whose (friendly) battle gets demoted to be an unofficial one.
  • Starfish Language The T'ca and Chi are themselves only half comprehensible in turn — the T'ca, most comprehensible and friendly of them and unofficial go-betweens for Oxy and Methane, speak in "matrix sentences" of words arranged two-dimensionally with no particular reading order or discernable grammar.
  • Balkanize Me After The Korean War ended with an unofficial armistice (meaning both countries are technically still at war), the Korean Peninsula, once a unified state, split between communist North and capitalist South, and judging by their less-than-friendly relations, the status quo may have to remain.
    Source: Balkanize Me
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