neighborly

The word “neighborly” has 3 syllables: nei-bor-ly

It's pronounced as /ˈneɪ.bər.li/


What is synonym and antonym for neighborly?

In the thesaurus, “neighborly” has 62 synonyms and 37 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for neighborly along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for neighborly

  • adoring
  • affable
  • affectionate
  • agreeable
  • amiable
  • amicable
  • approachable
  • bonhomous
  • brotherly
  • buddy-buddy
  • chummy
  • civil
  • close
  • clubby
  • collegial
  • companionable
  • comradely
  • considerate
  • convivial
  • cooperative
  • cordial
  • devoted
  • extraverted
  • extroverted
  • familiar
  • folksy
  • fond
  • fraternal
  • friendly
  • genial
  • good-natured
  • good-tempered
  • gracious
  • gregarious
  • hail-fellow
  • hail-fellow-well-met
  • harmonious
  • hearty
  • helpful
  • hospitable
  • intimate
  • jolly
  • jovial
  • kind
  • lovesome
  • loving
  • matey
  • merry
  • nice
  • obliging
  • outgoing
  • palsy
  • palsy-walsy
  • sisterly
  • sociable
  • social
  • sweet
  • tender
  • tenderhearted
  • warm
  • warmhearted
  • well-disposed

Antonyms for neighborly

  • aggressive
  • alienated
  • antagonistic
  • argumentative
  • bellicose
  • belligerent
  • chilly
  • cold
  • cold-blooded
  • combative
  • contentious
  • cool
  • disagreeable
  • disputatious
  • distant
  • estranged
  • frigid
  • frosty
  • glacial
  • hateful
  • hostile
  • icy
  • inhospitable
  • inimical
  • mean
  • pugnacious
  • quarrelsome
  • rude
  • scrappy
  • truculent
  • unfriendly
  • unkind
  • unneighborly
  • unsociable
  • unsocial
  • wintery
  • wintry

Meanings of neighborly

  • adjective
    1. Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.

Example Sentences

  • The neighborly gesture of bringing over cookies made everyone feel welcome.
  • They had a neighborly chat over the fence every evening.
  • It’s important to be neighborly and help those who live near you.
  • His neighborly spirit shone through when he offered to help with the move.
  • The community is known for its neighborly kindness and support during tough times.

On this page you'll find 99 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to neighborly, such as: adoring, affable, affectionate, aggressive, agreeable, alienated, amiable.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

accommodating

  • abetting
  • acclimating
  • acclimatizing
  • accommodative
  • accustoming
  • acquainting
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  • adjusting
  • agreeable
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  • appeasing
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  • cooperative
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  • encamping
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  • evening
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  • fitting
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  • gearing
  • generous
  • gladdening
  • gracious
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  • habilitating
  • habituating
  • handy
  • harboring
  • hardening
  • harmonizing
  • helpful
  • helping
  • holding
  • homing
  • hospitable
  • housing
  • humoring
  • inclosing
  • indulgent
  • indulging
  • integrating
  • inuring
  • joining
  • keying
  • kind
  • lenient
  • lodging
  • making over
  • matching
  • merging
  • modeling
  • modelling
  • modifying
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  • mollycoddling
  • naturalizing
  • neighborly
  • obliging
  • on deck
  • on tap
  • orchestrating
  • ordering
  • orientating
  • orienting
  • overindulgent
  • pacifying
  • pairing
  • pampering
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  • phasing
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  • recycling
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  • refiguring
  • refitting
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  • registering
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  • regulating
  • rehearsing
  • reinventing
  • rejiggering
  • relieving
  • remaking
  • remodeling
  • revamping
  • revising
  • reworking
  • rigging
  • roofing
  • rooming
  • roosting
  • rooting
  • satisfying
  • seasoning
  • seating
  • securing
  • settling
  • shaping
  • shedding
  • sheltering
  • solicitous
  • squaring
  • stabling
  • standardizing
  • succoring
  • suiting
  • supporting
  • synchronizing
  • synthesizing
  • tailoring
  • taking
  • taking in
  • tenting
  • thoughtful
  • toughening
  • training
  • transforming
  • tuning
  • unifying
  • uniting
  • unselfish
  • user friendly

easygoing

familiar

  • a dime a dozen
  • abetter
  • abettor
  • abreast
  • accomplice
  • accustomed
  • acquaintance
  • acquainted
  • addict
  • adoring
  • affable
  • affectionate
  • afficionado
  • aficionado
  • alive
  • ally
  • alter ego
  • amicable
  • amigo
  • apprised
  • arrogant
  • associate
  • at home
  • at home with
  • au courant
  • au fait
  • audacious
  • aware
  • benefactor
  • blood brother
  • boastful
  • bold
  • bold-faced
  • boon
  • bosom
  • braggart
  • bragging
  • brash
  • brassbound
  • brassy
  • brazen
  • brother
  • buddy
  • buddy-buddy
  • buff
  • bug
  • bumptious
  • cavalier
  • ceaseless
  • cheeky
  • chum
  • chummy
  • clannish
  • client
  • close
  • close-knit
  • cocky
  • cognizant
  • cohort
  • collaborator
  • colleague
  • comfortable
  • common
  • common or garden
  • commonplace
  • compadre
  • companion
  • companionable
  • complacent
  • comrade
  • conceited
  • confederate
  • confidant
  • confidante
  • confident
  • confidential
  • conscious
  • constant
  • continual
  • continuous
  • conventional
  • conversant
  • convivial
  • cordial
  • cozy
  • crony
  • customary
  • customer
  • de rigueur
  • dear
  • denizen
  • devoted
  • devotee
  • disdainful
  • domestic
  • domineering
  • easy
  • egoistic
  • egoistical
  • egomaniacal
  • egotistic
  • egotistical
  • endemic
  • enthusiast
  • especial
  • everyday
  • fan
  • fanatic
  • fancier
  • fellow
  • fiend
  • fond
  • forward
  • freak
  • free
  • free-and-easy
  • frequent
  • frequenter
  • fresh
  • friend
  • friendly
  • garden variety
  • garden-variety
  • general
  • genial
  • gracious
  • gregarious
  • grounded
  • guest
  • habitual
  • habitue
  • haughty
  • haunter
  • hearty
  • heedful
  • hifalutin
  • high-and-mighty
  • high-handed
  • high-hat
  • highfalutin
  • hobnobber
  • hoity-toity
  • homespun
  • household
  • humble
  • immodest
  • imperious
  • impertinent
  • important
  • impudent
  • in on
  • in the know
  • incessant
  • informal
  • informed
  • inseparable
  • insolent
  • intimate
  • introduced
  • intrusive
  • inward
  • kept posted
  • knowledgeable
  • known
  • lordly
  • lover
  • loving
  • main man
  • mandatory
  • maniac
  • mate
  • matter-of-fact
  • mindful
  • mundane
  • musketeer
  • native
  • natural
  • near
  • neighborly
  • nervy
  • no stranger to
  • normal
  • nut
  • obligatory
  • obtrusive
  • officious
  • old hat
  • open
  • ordinary
  • overbold
  • overfamiliar
  • overweening
  • pal
  • palsy
  • palsy-walsy
  • partner
  • patron
  • peer
  • pen pal
  • perennial
  • pert
  • plain
  • plugged in
  • pompous
  • popular
  • presuming
  • presumptuous
  • pretentious
  • prevailing
  • prevalent
  • prideful
  • prosaic
  • proud
  • proverbial
  • quotidian
  • rampant
  • rat
  • recognizable
  • recurrent
  • regular
  • relaxed
  • repeated
  • routine
  • sassy
  • saucy
  • savvy
  • secretive
  • self-absorbed
  • self-asserting
  • self-assertive
  • self-assured
  • self-centered
  • self-complacent
  • self-conceited
  • self-concerned
  • self-confident
  • self-engrossed
  • self-important
  • self-infatuated
  • self-interested
  • self-involved
  • self-obsessed
  • self-satisfied
  • self-seeking
  • selfish
  • sensible
  • sentient
  • simple
  • sister
  • smart
  • smug
  • snobbish
  • snug
  • sociable
  • social
  • sport
  • standard
  • stock
  • stuck-up
  • supercilious
  • superior
  • supporter
  • sure
  • sympathizer
  • tender
  • tenderhearted
  • thick
  • tight
  • tight-knit
  • tuned-in
  • ubiquitous
  • unceasing
  • unceremonious
  • unconstrained
  • universal
  • unreserved
  • unsophisticated
  • up
  • up on
  • up-to-date
  • uppity
  • usual
  • vain
  • vainglorious
  • versant
  • versed
  • versed in
  • warm
  • well up in
  • well-informed
  • well-wisher
  • wise
  • with it
  • wonted
  • workaday

hail-fellow

  • abetter
  • abettor
  • accomplice
  • adherent
  • adoring
  • affable
  • affectionate
  • agreeable
  • ally
  • amicable
  • amigo
  • approachable
  • backer
  • benefactor
  • bonhomous
  • brotherly
  • buddy
  • buddy-buddy
  • chum
  • chummy
  • close
  • clubby
  • collaborator
  • colleague
  • collegial
  • compadre
  • companionable
  • comrade
  • comradely
  • confederate
  • convivial
  • cordial
  • crony
  • devoted
  • disciple
  • exponent
  • extraverted
  • extroverted
  • familiar
  • fellow
  • folksy
  • follower
  • fond
  • fraternal
  • friend
  • friendly
  • genial
  • good-natured
  • good-tempered
  • gracious
  • gregarious
  • hail-fellow-well-met
  • hearty
  • hobnobber
  • hospitable
  • intimate
  • jolly
  • jovial
  • lovesome
  • loving
  • mate
  • matey
  • merry
  • musketeer
  • neighborly
  • nice
  • outgoing
  • pal
  • palsy
  • palsy-walsy
  • partner
  • sisterly
  • sociable
  • social
  • supporter
  • sweet
  • sympathizer
  • tender
  • tenderhearted
  • warm
  • warmhearted
  • well-wisher

hail-fellow-well-met

  • abetter
  • abettor
  • accomplice
  • adherent
  • adoring
  • affable
  • affectionate
  • agreeable
  • ally
  • amicable
  • amigo
  • approachable
  • backer
  • benefactor
  • bonhomous
  • brotherly
  • buddy
  • buddy-buddy
  • chum
  • chummy
  • close
  • clubby
  • collaborator
  • colleague
  • collegial
  • compadre
  • companionable
  • comrade
  • comradely
  • confederate
  • convivial
  • cordial
  • crony
  • devoted
  • disciple
  • exponent
  • extraverted
  • extroverted
  • familiar
  • fellow
  • folksy
  • follower
  • fond
  • fraternal
  • friend
  • friendly
  • genial
  • good-natured
  • good-tempered
  • gracious
  • gregarious
  • hail-fellow
  • hearty
  • hobnobber
  • hospitable
  • intimate
  • jolly
  • jovial
  • lovesome
  • loving
  • mate
  • matey
  • merry
  • musketeer
  • neighborly
  • nice
  • outgoing
  • pal
  • palsy
  • palsy-walsy
  • partner
  • sisterly
  • sociable
  • social
  • supporter
  • sweet
  • sympathizer
  • tender
  • tenderhearted
  • warm
  • warmhearted
  • well-wisher

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