comradely en · ADJ
Etymology
From comrade + -ly.
Meanings
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Having the characteristics of a comrade or of comradeship; companionable.
Land must be cleared before there was much stock-work for sheep and cattle dogs. But Bobtails were comradely; they guarded the men from the desperate loneliness in those isolated places.
1944, Emily Carr, “Punk”, in The House of All Sorts:"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 […]"
1932, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter I, in Forgive Us Our Trespasses, New York: Grosset & Dunlap:
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Of or relating to comradeship; between or among comrades.
I touch her cheek, take her hand. On this bleak hillside in mid-morning I can find no trace in myself of that stupefied eroticism that used to draw me night after night to her body or even of the comradely affection of the road.
1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Secker & Warburg, page 99:During the trial they conferred together amiably in whispers, continued their comradely discussions during recesses.
1957 June 3, “A Question of Justice”, in Time: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.
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 165:Much of Kühne's work is based on an analysis of comradely ideals constructed and sanctified, especially by right-wing groups, in the interwar years.
2014, Jason Crouthamel, An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality, and German Soldiers in the First World War, Palgrave Macmillan, Introduction, p. 8:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more comradely | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most comradely | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
comradeliness · uncomradely · uncomradeliness
Translations (7)
el συντροφικός (of or relating to comradeship; between or among comrades) · sv kamratlig (of or relating to comradeship; between or among comrades) · sv kamratlig (having the characteristics of a comrade or of comradeship) · hu elvtársi (of or relating to comradeship; between or among comrades) · hu elvtársias (having the characteristics of a comrade or of comradeship) · hu elvtársi (having the characteristics of a comrade or of comradeship) · de kameradschaftlich (having the characteristics of a comrade or of comradeship)