Parental synonyms and antonyms

pə-rĕn'tl

Having traits considered typical of fathers; kind, protective, wise, etc.; paternal

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Of, like, or appropriate to a mother:

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Related through the mother, or her side of the family.

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Of, or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms

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Being such or possessed by reason of birth:

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ancestral (related)

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.

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Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family

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filial (antonym)

(Genetics) Of or relating to a generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation.

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paternity (related)

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adoptive (related)

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maternity (related)

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parent (related)

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Of or pertaining to human family.

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Legally inherited from one or more ancestors

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phyletic

(Biol.) Of or pertaining to a phylum or to an evolutionary line of descent

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Find another word for parental. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for parental, like: fatherly, motherly, maternal, phylogenetic, hereditary, ancestral, paternal, filial, paternity, adoptive and maternity.