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Definition of hail-fellow-well-met in English: hail-fellow-well-metadjective Showing excessive familiarity or friendliness. Arnold was very cheerful in a hail-fellow-well-met sort of way Example sentencesExamples - How about the continuous flow of hail-fellow-well-met vocals scrubbed free of messy traits like human pain and intensity?
- Behind the broadcaster's hail-fellow-well-met demeanour and bluster lies an extremely astute and clued-in individual, who meets criticism of his television style with quotes from Mark Twain.
- Some groups took offense at his hail-fellow-well-met endorsement of the high life.
- He was unlike the moody Michael Angelo; unlike the gentle Raphael; unlike the fastidious Van Dyck who came long afterward; he was hail-fellow-well-met among his associates, though often given over to dreaminess.
- There was pain lurking beneath the sparkling surface of those eyes, and genuine intelligence cloaking itself behind that hail-fellow-well-met act.
Synonyms convivial, sociable, outgoing, gregarious, companionable, friendly, genial, affable, amiable, congenial, agreeable, good-humoured, extrovert, extroverted, uninhibited Scottish couthy informal backslapping, chummy, pally, clubbable, clubby, buddy-buddy British informal matey rare conversable
Definition of hail-fellow-well-met in US English: hail-fellow-well-metadjectiveˌhālˌfeləˌwelˈmetˌheɪlˌfɛləˌwɛlˈmɛt Showing excessive familiarity. Harold was accustomed to hail-fellow-well-met salesmen Example sentencesExamples - He was unlike the moody Michael Angelo; unlike the gentle Raphael; unlike the fastidious Van Dyck who came long afterward; he was hail-fellow-well-met among his associates, though often given over to dreaminess.
- Some groups took offense at his hail-fellow-well-met endorsement of the high life.
- There was pain lurking beneath the sparkling surface of those eyes, and genuine intelligence cloaking itself behind that hail-fellow-well-met act.
- How about the continuous flow of hail-fellow-well-met vocals scrubbed free of messy traits like human pain and intensity?
- Behind the broadcaster's hail-fellow-well-met demeanour and bluster lies an extremely astute and clued-in individual, who meets criticism of his television style with quotes from Mark Twain.
Synonyms convivial, sociable, outgoing, gregarious, companionable, friendly, genial, affable, amiable, congenial, agreeable, good-humoured, extrovert, extroverted, uninhibited
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