Fraternal Synonyms and Antonyms

frə-tûrnəl
Designating twins, of either the same or different sexes, developed from separately fertilized ova and thus having hereditary characteristics not necessarily the same
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. brotherly
  2. friendly
  3. intimate
  4. brotherlike
  5. biovular
  6. congenial
  7. social
Antonyms:
  1. identical
  2. sisterly

Fraternal Sentence Examples

  • Its communities were bound together by a sense of close fraternal relation.

  • I come also as a delegate from the Norwegian party to offer fraternal salutations.

  • Fraternal twins share the same womb, but come from different ovum.

  • Identical twins are also called monozygotic, and non-identical, dizygotic or fraternal.

  • Fraternal twins are much more common than identical twins.

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