What's the difference between easygoing and friendly?

Easygoing


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lovejoy was a big deal, with X Factor-sized ratings: McShane's easygoing charisma reeled in up to 16m viewers a week.
  • (2) Combining yoga and surfing means that no one – not in our easygoing group at least – is too fanatical about either.
  • (3) By contrast, the more relaxed, easygoing style of the Type B matches better the slower pace of old age, but is not as conducive to success in younger age groups.
  • (4) An easygoing ride on horseback is the best way to take in the scenery and, within a couple of hours, I'm beginning to get used to Tango and his ways.
  • (5) The terrain, a mix of beach and clifftop paths, was easygoing aside from the July sun, which became fierce around midday.
  • (6) Besides easygoing classics like On the Road Again and Blue Moon of Kentucky, O'Brien and his band also thundered through Radiohead's Creep and the White Stripes' Seven Nation Army.
  • (7) The immigration minister noted that Australians were, intrinsically, easygoing people.
  • (8) A relaxed or easygoing affiliative motive syndrome characterizes insulin dependent Type I diabetics and can, if aroused, lead to poorer blood sugar control in such diabetics.
  • (9) The entire team is – with the exception of Paley, the lone female editor – a bunch of quietly spoken dudes in T-shirts, conspicuously easygoing, witty, and dogged in their work ethic.
  • (10) Despite having such a big job at Vogue, she's so easygoing, never appears to be stressed (although I'm sure she feels so at times) and she's not what I'd call Vogue-ish or grand in any way.
  • (11) At the house party, she was happy and easygoing and approachable, and she gave her fans a very good time.
  • (12) I'm a pretty easygoing person and it bleeds into the music.
  • (13) But with his humour, easygoing charm and ability to successfully navigate between different cultural capitals, Paisley could be the one to break the mould.
  • (14) His easygoing manner quickly endeared him to viewers of ITV's popular World of Sport programme, initially hosted by Dickie Davies.
  • (15) An easygoing, youthful man in his early 60s, Crofts was educated at Lancing College, but says he was "too arrogant" for university, and stumbled into ghostwriting because, he says, "I didn't want to have a permanent job".
  • (16) The man at the centre of the operation is Mohan Kale, a 45-year-old bespectacled entrepreneur with an easygoing nature.
  • (17) On the opposing team are the swaths of people who apparently treasure wobbly footage of speck-sized people playing distorted versions of their hits, such easygoing acts as Ed Sheeran, Jason Mraz and Weezer, and the creators of a phone app called Vyclone , which “encourages audiences to film at concerts and then brings together the footage to create a crowd-sourced video of the event”.
  • (18) He was such a laid-back, easygoing man before this.
  • (19) The unassuming dentist is deeply competitive, his easygoing nature belying a fierce ambition.
  • (20) Since then, Mr Gore has appeared more relaxed, shedding an uptight image that did him no favours in contrast to Mr Bush, who projected an easygoing charm.

Friendly


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.
  • (a.) Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable.
  • (a.) Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.
  • (a.) Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.
  • (adv.) In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
  • (2) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
  • (3) Friend erythroleukemia cells were induced to differentiate by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and hexamethylene-bis-acetamide (HBMA) in order to investigate whether their lipid characteristics, common to other systems of transformed cells, revert to a normal differentiation pattern.
  • (4) Furthermore, in induced Friend cells 100 microM Fe-SIH stimulated 2-14C-glycine incorporation into heme up to 3.6-fold as compared to the incorporation observed with saturating concentrations of Fe-Tf.
  • (5) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
  • (6) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (7) The video, which Kester said was taken by a friend of Savannah’s who came to support her, was circulated online this month and featured in a Mormon LGBTQ podcast.
  • (8) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.
  • (9) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
  • (10) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
  • (11) I didn’t come here to play games – I wrote to all my friends and family because I might not see them again,” he told Al-Aan.
  • (12) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
  • (13) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
  • (14) But last year Rosi Santoni, one of the relatives who helped look after her, said she had plenty of family to care for her and had many friends in the town.
  • (15) When I told my friend Rob that I was coming to visit him in Rio, I suggested we try something a bit different to going to the beach every day and drinking caipirinhas until three in the morning.
  • (16) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
  • (17) He numbered the Kennedy family and Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond thrillers, among his friends and spent millions on amassing a first-class art collection, featuring works by Manet and Monet, as well as Van Gogh.
  • (18) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
  • (19) The person responsible for pulling the trigger was equally likely to be a friend, a family member, or the victim.
  • (20) Alec played a role in the resignation of the UK defence secretary Liam Fox last year over his close ties to his friend Adam Werritty.