Word.ws English Dictionary

friarly

friarly adjective: befitting a friar.

Adjective

friarly (comparative more friarly, superlative most friarly)

  1. Befitting a friar.

Forms of friarly

comparativemore friarly
superlativemost friarly

Origin of friarly

From friar + -ly. Piecewise doublet of brotherly.

Questions about friarly

What does friarly mean?
Friarly means befitting a friar.
What part of speech is friarly?
Friarly is an adjective.

Words near friarly in the dictionary

  1. friaresses
  2. friarhood
  3. friarhoods
  4. friaries
  5. friarlike
  6. friarly
  7. friars
  8. Friars Minor
  9. Friars Preachers
  10. friars' omelettes
  11. friarship

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: friarly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “friarly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/friarly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.