MOTHERLY Synonyms

• a loving feeling

• feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others

• feeling or showing love and affection

• characteristic of a mother

• relating to or derived from one's mother

• relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent

• related on the mother's side

• given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality

• easy to cut or chew

• physically untoughened

• something that can be used as an official medium of payment

• someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

• a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

• car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

• a boat for communication between ship and shore

• ship that usually provides supplies to other ships

• hurting

• young and immature

• having or displaying warmth or affection

• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

• (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition

• offer or present for acceptance

• propose a payment

• make a tender of; in legal settlements

• make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer

• the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

• help develop, help grow

• look after a child until it is an adult

• provide with nourishment

• in a maternal manner; as a mother