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/ˈfɑːðəli/ · adjective
Characteristic of what is considered the ideal behaviour pertaining to fatherhood..
fatherly advice
Exhorting him fatherlie to giue ouer that course.
[…]; tho’ God hath for a while Fatherly Chaſtiſed them by thoſe Rods which he hath afterwards conſumed.
This child is not mine as the first was, / I cannot sing it to rest, / I cannot lift it up fatherly / And bliss it upon my breast;
Indeed we live beneath the sky, . . / That great smooth Hand of God, stretched out / On all His children fatherly, / To bless them from the fear and doubt, / Which would be, if, from this low place, / All opened straight up to His face / Into the grand eternity.
He looked fatherly at me.
When she fell forward a little, as if she were half fainting with the pleasure, he held her, fatherly, in his arms until she recovered.
Use fatherly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fatherly means Characteristic of what is considered the ideal behaviour pertaining to fatherhood..
Common synonyms include loving, paternal, fatherlike.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
fatherly advice
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