Paternal

ahd-5
  • adjective. Relating to or characteristic of a father or fatherhood; fatherly.
  • adjective. Received or inherited from a father.
  • adjective. Related through one's father.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to a father; proper to or characteristic of a father; fatherly: as, paternal care or affection; paternal favor or admonition.
  • Derived from the father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father.
  • adjective. Received or derived from a father; hereditary.
  • adjective. the assumption by the governing power of a quasi-fatherly relation to the people, involving strict and intimate supervision of their business and social concerns, upon the theory that they are incapable of managing their own affairs.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family; as, "paternal grandfather" (one's father's father).
  • adjective. Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
  • adjective. Received or inherited from one's father.
  • adjective. Acting as a father; as in "paternal filicide" (murder of a son committed by his father).
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. belonging to or inherited from one's father
  • adjective. relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent
  • adjective. characteristic of a father
  • adjective. related on the father's side
    • Word Usage
    "The term paternal correction is also applied to it."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    maternal  
    cross-reference
    paternal government  
    Equivalent
    fatherlike  fatherly  paternalistic  related  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    colonel  diurnal  eternal  external  fraternal  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    affectionate  ancestral  avuncular  benevolent  brotherly  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adoring  affectionate  ancestorial  ancestral  concerned  
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