Term Gallery logo

Meanings of fatherlike in English

Like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective.

        Related terms
        Usage of fatherlike in English
        1
        He doesn't like hearing about the sex that much, but he doesn't get all fatherlike about it.
        Something wicked
        2
        Doug's overtly stern yet fatherlike geniality returned.
        Terminal Compromise
        3
        Then we were, as it were, impregnated with the thought of God-a just God, but benevolent and fatherlike.
        Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
        4
        Fatherlike, he thought he had done enough for a bit, and would enjoy a "sunning reaction" on the summerhouse roof.
        The Way of the Wild
        Fatherlike through the time