different between sisterly vs uxorious

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

Latin uxorius (“of or pertaining to a wife”) from uxor (“wife”), late 16th c..

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?s???.i.?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?s??.i.?s/, /???z??.i.?s/

Adjective

uxorious (comparative more uxorious, superlative most uxorious)

1. Very devoted and possibly submissive to one's wife.
   • 1991, The Advertiser, 12 Oct.,

     She was the cross her cuckolded, incompatible husband had to bear, and he was—beneath those fantastic uniforms—the pathetic, uxorious human aggregate of love and good intentions, which, quite frankly, bored her most of the time.

Synonyms

• doting

Coordinate terms

• maritorious

Related terms

• uxorial
• uxoricide

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