avuncular
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Kind, friendly and tolerant in the manner of a benevolent uncle towards younger people.
His avuncular advice put the nervous newcomers immediately at ease.
Business adjective
Kindly and tolerant in the manner of a benevolent uncle.
His avuncular style put juniors at ease, though some mistook the warmth for a lack of rigour.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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