avuncular
adj/əˈvʌŋkjʊlə/UK/əˈvʌŋkjʊlɚ/US
Etymology
From Latin avunculus (“a maternal uncle”).
- derived from avunculus
Definitions
In the manner of an uncle, pertaining to an uncle.
- Both uncle Frank and uncle Stephen Austen had made it a point of principle to be rigorously unsentimental in the discharge of their avuncular obligations.
- In 2021, the Times described you as an “avuncular public intellectual.” How do you feel about that label? [Stephen Fry:] Oh my lordy lord. Avuncular gives me great pleasure.
Kind, genial, benevolent, or tolerant.
- But Jackson had an avuncular feeling for the two younger men and he assumed it was his duty to pull them from their gloom.
- A man with such a nice, avuncular personality would not blow up the world.
The neighborhood
- neighboravunculate
- neighborDutch uncle
Derived
avuncularism, avuncularity, avuncularly, unavuncular, uncular
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA