Meaning

Of or characteristic of brothers..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or characteristic of brothers.
2. In the manner of a brother, as a brother, as brothers.

Example Sentences

brotherly love

Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate; but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.

They are modelling in parvo around them the predestined Greater America of the mightier, holier, brotherlier comradeship which it seems America has been called into being to bring to pass for the world:— […]

Praising and pleading him, / Lovingly needing him, / Brotherly feeding him, / Preaching and speeding him, / Blessing, succeeding Him, / Thus is the Master near,— / Thus is He here!

I might have seen him, and talked with him brotherly, face to face.

"What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"

The people treat me brotherly here.

There was no way she'd be able to act brotherly/sisterly with him.

Word Forms

• more brotherly
• brotherlier
• most brotherly
• brotherliest

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When Should You Use Brotherly?

Use brotherly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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