MEANING
Warmly familiar and protective in a way associated with an uncle.
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- avuncular advice
- avuncular manner
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He offered avuncular advice over tea.
The captain adopted an avuncular manner with the recruits.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more avuncular; superlative most avuncular where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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