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sisterlier

sisterlier is the comparative form of sisterly.

Meaning of sisterly

Adjective

sisterly (comparative more sisterly or sisterlier, superlative most sisterly or sisterliest)

  1. Of or characteristic of sisters.
    • Poor Mary [Austin] will do her very best and sisterliest for you. A kinder soul is not in the Earth.1864 July 14, Thomas Carlyle, “1853–1856. Illness and Death of Carlyle’s Mother. Suffolk. Kinloch Luichart”, in Trudy Bliss, editor, Thomas Carlyle: Letters to His Wife, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard...

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Questions about sisterlier

What is sisterlier the comparative form of?
Sisterlier is the comparative form of sisterly.

Words near sisterlier in the dictionary

  1. sisterji
  2. sisterjis
  3. sisterkin
  4. sisterkins
  5. sisterless
  6. sisterlier
  7. sisterliest
  8. sisterlike
  9. sisterliness
  10. sisterlocks
  11. sisterly

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