fatherly
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2.4
- adjective
- /ˈfɑːðərli/
:
paterno
- My dad was quick to give me some fatherly advice
- fatherly love
And second of all, the book like, that's some weird, I don't know, fatherly advice that someone would get.
- And second of all, the book like, that's some weird, I don't know, fatherly advice that someone would get.
- I don't know if you've ever had a Greece, a Grecian around you, you know, but but they can be kind of fatherly sometimes, you know.
- But having him as a a fatherly figure in my life, of course I wanted what he had.
- This is not a nice Islamic fatherly regime.
- That's such a sense of fatherly protector, provider, presider pride for them, right?
- He's he's, he talks about the father who indignantly concentrates his fatherly authority in one single curse, or the son who defies.
Examples
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I suppose I ought to be giving you a few bits of fatherly advice by rights.
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Want to hear some fatherly advice?
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But having him as a a fatherly figure in my life, of course I wanted what he had.
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I appreciate the fatherly thing, I really do.
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And, by the way, thanks for the fatherly advice, guy.
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So I figure, hey, you know, you might need some fatherly advice.
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In the course of time, he became a fatherly friend to me.
Academic text (2008) -
In that case, I'd like some fatherly advice.
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Men her father's age often showed a fatherly concern for her.
Fiction book (2001) -
He offered fatherly support during my difficult times.
Synonyms
11
4.6
Having a father's kind and protective way
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3.4
Kind, gentle, and caring like a grandfather
Kind and protective in the way a parent acts toward someone
How Fatherly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fatherly comes from the everyday word father plus the ending -ly, which here means 'like' or 'in the way of'. So fatherly means 'like a father' — kind, protective, and responsible.