1. Like a father in affection and care; tender; pertaining to a father.

2. In the manner of a father.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• fately,
• ratherly,
• fatherm,
• famerly,
• otherly,
• leatherly,
• fatherss,
• featherly,
• furtherly,
• fartherly,
• fathere,
• fatherday,
• fethery,
• notherly,
• butherly,
• fatherliek,
• farherly,
• fathwerly,
• faatherly,
• fatherlly

• farther,
• fairly,
• fatherless,
• fatherland,
• motherly,
• fatherlike,
• feather,
• father,
• feathers.

The adjective form of "fatherly" is "paternal".

The plural form of the word "fatherly" is "fatherlies".

The singular form of the word "fatherly" is "father"