different between sisterly vs sisterlike

English

Etymology

From sister +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?st?li/
• Homophone: systole (in non-rhotic accents)

Adjective

sisterly (comparative more sisterly, superlative most sisterly)

1. Of or characteristic of sisters.
   • 2011, Jane Martinson, The Guardian, 4 May 2011:

     Burton designed both Middleton sisters' dresses in white, so that when Pippa picked up Kate's train in the abbey, the two of them were united, visually, in a display of sisterly togetherness.

Translations

Adverb

sisterly (comparative more sisterly, superlative most sisterly)

1. In the manner of a sister, behaving as one would expect of a sister; as a sister, as sisters.
   • 1907, Jack London, The Iron Heel:

     "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"

Translations

Related terms

• big-sisterly

Anagrams

• styliser

English

Etymology

sister +? -like

Adjective

sisterlike (comparative more sisterlike, superlative most sisterlike)

1. Resembling a sister or some aspect of one.

Synonyms

• sisterly

Antonyms

• unsisterlike
• unsisterly