pallyinformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

behaving in a kind and pleasant way
friendlyI like his sister - she's so friendly.
niceHer boyfriend is really nice.
amiableShe was perfectly amiable.
genialOur genial host led us to our room.
congenialHe's very congenial and so quite likeable.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Friendly
affability
affable
affably
affiliative
agreeableness
conversable
convivial
conviviality
convivially
cordial
hospitable
hospitably
hospitality
inseparable
socially
sugar and spiceidiom
sweet-natured
sweet-tempered
sweetness
the human touch

Examples of chummy

chummy
It, too, has an active forum and chummy community aspect.
From The Verge
Routinely, they hire high-powered, politically connected agents who just happen to be chummy with commissioners.
From Los Angeles Times
A chummy band of fellow artists would be feasting on the inspiration at these venues.
From New York Daily News
He was very, very chummy with the athletes.
From NPR
The dude is basically running a pickup artist game and negging his entire audience, but in a way that's kind of chummy about it.
From Wired
Well, sometimes the result is chummy kid-centric music that cause adults to grind their teeth.
From Wired
The two became chummy and traded their development of the voice.
From Hollywood Reporter
Savage -- strict but funny, quick but detailed, chummy but exacting -- breaks through all that.
From OregonLive.com
This chummy crow is even able to approximate speech via expressive cawing, and the delightfully engaging boy-bird business might profitably have been expanded.
From Hollywood Reporter
The emails also reveal how the chummy network of investors would pass along tips and ideas, most of which were not available to the average day trader.
From Fast Company
Get chummy with healthy fats.
From OregonLive.com
While the prevailing ideology of democracy tolerates a chummy, first name, appearance in personal relationships between subordinates and superordinates, the deeper reality is one of interlocking patrimonial authority.
The cow was put in a stall, in a barn, the calf being nourished and thus openly adopted by the mother they became effusively chummy.
From Project Gutenberg
We became pretty chummy, and my heart bounded when he cautioned me to follow his lead.
From Project Gutenberg
I like to feel chummy with my own family, and the only way to do it is to keep acquainted with each other.
From Project Gutenberg
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