- 1involving people, countries, etc. that live or are located near each other the importance of good neighborly relations between the two states neighborly help a neighborly dispute
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- 2friendly and helpful synonym kind It was a neighborly gesture of theirs.
neighborly
adjectiveNAmE//ˈneɪbərli//
noun [uncountable] good neighborliness a sense of community and neighborliness
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