Fatherly is valid Scrabble Word

Is fatherly a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is fatherly valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for FATHERLY in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

like a father
relating to, resembling, or characteristic of a father, especially in being protective and affectionate
kind or protective, like a father
Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.
Of or pertaining to a father.
like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

paternal

Words related to FATHERLY

fatherliness18 fatherlinesses20 paternal10 fatherlier16 fatherliest17

Words that contain FATHERLY

unfatherly19 forefatherly24 grandfatherly24

How to use FATHERLY in a sentence

Oliver enjoyed holding Emma and being fatherly, although he sensed that his presence was not entirely necessary.
I found the matron even more motherly than the president was fatherly.
Let me but move one question to your daughter, And by that fatherly and kindly power That you have in her, bid her answer truly.
Then he went on to Chelsea and interviewed a fatherly gentleman at the Vestry offices.
Skale, but to see him in his normal and fatherly aspect again.
There was no need now to send that written history with its request for fatherly care for Virgie, to Lawrence Bancroft.
The major was kind, and talked in a fatherly way about the danger of extremes, the beauty of moderation, and the value of discretion as a rule of conduct.
His tone had in it an air of fatherly caressing which was inexpressibly soothing to his pretty companion, tired and lonely with her silent struggle of the past month.
His wife could not live with him, but he was very kind and fatherly to every one else, and Jay was rather fond of him.
Indeed, to their loyalty was added a fatherly feeling of guardianship over him, because of his youth, that brought a new pleasure into the relationship.

The present Emperor of Austria is a gentle, fatherly old man.
He felt the hand of God even in this, and placed himself, with a short but fervent prayer, under his fatherly protection.
If we are a big family, as you say, Major, will you not always have a fatherly eye upon my friend? He survives a mighty trouble.
I will give my fatherly blessing to you twain, for you are worthy of each other, and have proved it this night.
Letty Bernard was an orphan, the daughter of one of his former friends, and he took a fatherly interest in her.
The dear old man controlled his anxieties on my account, and spared me the questions which his fatherly interest in my welfare made him eager to ask.
In all my long experience of my fatherly old friend I had never seen him really angry yet.
But Bob missed a sort of fatherly interest that the others had shown in him and did not rely so implicitly upon their judgment.
The aged priest had known her all her life, and patted her head with fatherly affection.
He had expected at least some word of his grief, some fatherly pressure of the hand.
Stratton will supply the mild fatherly sociological leaders.
Upon General Hooker its courteous praise and frank rebuke, its generous trust and distinct note of fatherly warning, made a profound impression.
He calls them his children from the love he has for them, and the fatherly care he has over them, and the fatherly instruction he gives them.
For twenty-three years he had ruled the House with fatherly care, and he was weary with many labours.
Goodell exercised a fatherly care over the institution.
He was no prig, but he had formed the habit of giving fatherly counsel which was much beyond his years.
He had a face of great sweetness and spirituality, and as Roma approached he bent his head and smiled a fatherly smile.
Joe set her on her feet, brushed her down with a fatherly hand, and on her refusal to walk further picked her up and carried her.
After the fifth failure I went back to the fatherly old chief of police to confess defeat and to notify him that I was leaving town.
She is fitful and impetuous, and she wants something strong and fatherly to lean upon and to worship, perhaps.
The proudest and happiest day of my life would be that on which I could marry her, with her dear love and your fatherly consent.
Placed immediately near the King on the steps of the throne, he saw the struggle between kingly decorum and fatherly affliction.
There was, in fact, something in the almost fatherly manner with which he treated her, something which seemed to soothe her affrighted heart.
His companion believed him to be very tired, and refrained from provoking conversation, but surrounded him with a quiet, fatherly care.

Similar words containing FATHER without suffix ly

father12 fathers13 fathered15 fathering16 godfather17 fatherhood20 fatherings17 fatherland17 fatherless16 fatherlike20 fathership21 forefather19 godfathers18 stepfather18 unfathered17 unfatherly19 fatherlier16 fatherhoods21 fatherlands18 fatherships22 forefathers20 godfathered20 grandfather19 housefather20 stepfathers19 fatherliest17 fatherliness18 forefatherly24 godfathering21 grandfathers20 housefathers21 unfatherlier18 grandfathered22 grandfatherly24 unfatherliest19 fatherlessness20 fatherlinesses20 grandfathering23 grandfatherlier23

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