grandmotherly
adjective
grandmotherly is an adjective meaning “Of or characteristic of grandmothers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-A-N-D-M-O-T-H-E-R-L-Y and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does grandmotherly mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or characteristic of grandmothers.
- 2
Resembling a grandmother.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce grandmotherly?
Grandmotherly has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of grandmotherly
- more grandmotherly comparative
- most grandmotherly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is grandmotherly?
Grandmotherly appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Grandmotherly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or characteristic of grandmothers:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | grand-maternel |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does grandmotherly come from?
From grandmother + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).