| 单词 | neighborly |
| 释义 | neighborly (once / 5744 pages) adj When you're neighborly, you are friendly and helpful to the people who live in your neighborhood or building. A neighborly (and backbreaking) gesture might be shoveling the snow on your neighbor's driveway. It's neighborly to say hello to people who live nearby, and it's also neighborly to organize a block party and invite everyone on your street. It's less neighborly to leave your barking dog tied up all night right outside your neighbors' bedroom window, or to have loud parties without inviting your downstairs neighbor. Neighborlike was once more commonly used than neighborly, and both come from Old English roots, neah, "near," and gebur, "dweller." WORD FAMILYneighborly: neighborliness, unneighborly+/neighbor: neighbored, neighborhood, neighboring, neighborly, neighbors/neighborhood: neighborhoods/unneighborly: unneighborliness USAGE EXAMPLES“We ask people to be neighborly about it,” she said. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) But despite the jovial ho-ho-hos in the annual show of seasonal goodwill and neighborly friendship, there lies an increasing disquiet in the Nordic nation. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) The signs stand side by side in our gardens, announcing our allegiances and our neighborly divisions. The New Yorker(Nov 09, 2016) adj exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor Syn neighbourly friendly characteristic of or befitting a friend |
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