Auntly vs Auntlike - What's the difference?
auntly | auntlike | Synonyms |
Of, like, or characteristic of an aunt.
*2001 , Mary Evans, Feminism :
*2012 , Josh Ritter, Bright's Passage :
In the manner of an aunt.
Auntlike is a synonym of auntly.
As adjectives the difference between auntly and auntlike
is that auntly is of, like, or characteristic of an aunt while auntlike is resembling an aunt or some aspect of one.As an adverb auntly
is in the manner of an aunt.auntly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Her auntly behavior always made me blush.
- The legacy Martineau offers to Eliot is auntly in the terms of my definition, because it is simultaneously gratuitous and enabling.
- He watched the auntly lady twist the ends of the diaper so that the whole assemblage seemed to wrap itself around his boy like magic.
