English Dictionary

avuncular

/əˈvʌŋkjʊlə/

adj

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

He had an avuncular way of giving advice to his younger colleagues.

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.