sisterly

English

From sister +‎ -ly.

sisterly (comparative more sisterly, superlative most sisterly)

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

of or characteristic of a sister or sisters

sisterly (comparative more sisterly, superlative most sisterly)

In the manner of a sister, behaving as one would expect of a sister; as a sister, as sisters.
- 1908, Jack London, The Iron Heel‎, New York: The Macmillan Company:
  "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"

like a sister

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