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sisterly

UK/ˈsɪstəli/

sisterly adjective: of or characteristic of sisters.

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...
    • 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.2011 May 4, Jane Martinson, The Guardian

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.
    • "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC

sisterly meaning in Bengali and Arabic

sisterly in Bengali

বোনসুলভ, স্নেহপূর্ণ

sisterly in Arabic

of or characteristic of a sister or sisters
أُخْتِيّ ʔuḵtiyy

Forms of sisterly

Adjective
comparativemore sisterly
comparativesisterlier
superlativemost sisterly
superlativesisterliest
Adverb
comparativemore sisterly
superlativemost sisterly

Origin of sisterly

From sister + -ly (adjectival suffix).

From sister + -ly (adverbial suffix).

Words formed from sisterly

Questions about sisterly

What does sisterly mean?
Sisterly means of or characteristic of sisters.
What is sisterly in Bengali?
Sisterly in Bengali is বোনসুলভ, স্নেহপূর্ণ. See Sisterly meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is sisterly?
Sisterly can be an adjective or an adverb.
How do you pronounce sisterly?
Sisterly is pronounced /ˈsɪstəli/ (UK).

Words near sisterly in the dictionary

  1. sisterlier
  2. sisterliest
  3. sisterlike
  4. sisterliness
  5. sisterlocks
  6. sisterly
  7. sisterly love
  8. sistern
  9. sisters
  10. Sisters Beach
  11. sisters before misters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sisterly (page history and authors); sisterly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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