hail-fellow-well-met

Examples

• All

• Balastro usually had the hail-fellow-well-met air so many of his countrymen could don with ease.

  Fiction book (2002)

• I had a long talk with Sean, and, see, Sean Astin is the kind of guy, "hail-fellow-well-met."

  Rudy (1993)

• I, like you, was once considered a hail-fellow-well-met!

  Raising Buchanan (2019)

• At best, he was a cheerful, if not very bright, hail-fellow-well-met.

  Blog text (16)

• Hail-fellow-well-met, Tuohey allowed a moment of contained laughter.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Even the most grandiose extroverted, hail fellow well met narcissist will isolate.

  DoctorRamani

• Even the most grandiose extroverted hail fellow well met narcissist will isolate.

• Under his hard-drinking, hail-fellow-well-met exterior, he was a remarkably thorough worker and quietly discreet in compiling information.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Everyone loves Jim because he is a hail-fellow-well-met who makes friends easily.

• Despite his serious job, he is known for his hail-fellow-well-met charm that puts people at ease.

Synonyms

C

comradely

vshail-fellow-well-met

1 6.0

Friendly and supportive in a way that shows people working together

is more about cheerful, outgoing greeting and can seem overly familiar

H

hail-fellow

vshail-fellow-well-met

• Archaic

9.9

A person who is warm and friendly and easy to talk to

is more likely to be cheerfully outgoing and sometimes overly familiar

Antonyms

C

cold

883 4.4

Unfriendly and distant in feeling or action

U

unfriendly

22 1.9

Not kind or warm to other people

How Friendly

hail-fellow-well-met

• Archaic

9.9

cordial

33 4.1

affable

16 5.5

genial

11 4.8

pleasant

89 1.0

friendly

773 1.0

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