English Dictionary

avuncular

IPA（発音記号）

/əˈvʌŋkjʊlə/

形容詞

広義

In the manner of an uncle, pertaining to an uncle. / (by extension) Kind, genial, benevolent, or tolerant.

日本語の意味

叔父のような、または叔父に関する / 親しみやすく、温厚で、寛大な様子（比喩的な意味で使用される場合）

Her avuncular smile put the nervous students at ease.

彼女の叔父のような微笑みは緊張している生徒たちを安心させた。

意味（1）

In the manner of an uncle, pertaining to an uncle.

Both uncle Frank and uncle Stephen Austen had made it a point of principle to be rigorously unsentimental in the discharge of their avuncular obligations.

意味（2）

(by extension) Kind, genial, benevolent, or tolerant.

A man with such a nice, avuncular personality would not blow up the world.

more avuncular （ comparative ）

most avuncular （ superlative ）