Befitting a mother; warm and nurturing.

Roget 906: benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored.    warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad-hearted; merciful etc. 914; charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant; bounteous, bountiful.    good-natured, well-natured; spleenless^†; sympathizing, sympathetic; complaisant etc. (courteous) 894; well-meant, well-intentioned.    fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly; paternal, maternal, fraternal; sororal^†; friendly etc. 888.    ... show more

Roget 897: loving etc. v.; fond of; taken with, struck with; smitten, bitten; attached to, wedded to; enamored; charmed etc. v.; in love; love-sick; over head and ears in love, head over heels in love.    affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving; amorous, amatory; fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous, devoted, motherly.    loved etc. v.. beloved well beloved, dearly beloved; dear, precious, darling, pet, little; favorite, popular.    congenial; after one's mind, after one's taste, after one's fancy, after one's own heart, to one's mind, to one's taste, to one's fancy, to one's own heart.    in one's good graces etc. (friendly) 888; dear as the apple of one's eye, nearest to one's heart.    lovable, adorable; lovely, sweet; attractive, seductive, winning; charming, engaging, interesting, enchanting, captivating, fascinating, bewitching; amiable, like an angel.    ... show more

Polish: matczyny, macierzyński

In a maternal manner; as a mother.

synonym: maternally.