sisterly

From sister +‎ -ly.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪstəli/
• Homophone: systole (in non-rhotic accents)

sisterly (comparative more sisterly, superlative most sisterly)

1. Of or characteristic of sisters.
   • 2011, Jane Martinson, The Guardian, 4 May 2011:

     Burton designed both Middleton sisters' dresses in white, so that when Pippa picked up Kate's train in the abbey, the two of them were united, visually, in a display of sisterly togetherness.

sisterly (comparative more sisterly, superlative most sisterly)

1. In the manner of a sister, behaving as one would expect of a sister; as a sister, as sisters.
   • 1907, Jack London, The Iron Heel:

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

• big-sisterly

• styliser