Words and phrases that have a meaning related to paternal: (147 results)
Often used in the same context:
fatherly, familial, filial, motherly, maternal, grandparental, parental, matriarchal, doting, fatherless, daughterly, nurturant, saintly, dutiful, overbearing, nonbiological, consanguineous, ancestral, surrogate, stepparent, oedipal, masculine, overprotective, hereditary, unaffectionate, patriarchal, wifely, noncustodial, patrilineal, uptightness, domineering, unloving, uxorious, elder, affectionate, aristocratic, chivalrous, adoptive, childless, byronic, unreciprocated, avuncular, roguish, oedipal complex, matrilineal, empathic, priggish, procreative, queenly, assortative mating, sisterly, patriarchic, priapic, benevolent, dizygotic, childlike, profounder, putative, righteous, husbandly, monozygotic, incommunicative, puppyish, prairie vole, inexpressive, highborn, noblesse oblige, leonine, companionate, proband, sib, slobbish, headstrong, dynastic, oracular, womanly, forbearing, infanticidal, kingly, hypochondriacal, filial duty, neglectful, dwarfish, heritable, wolfish, pathological, godly, psychologic, falstaffian, brusk, wifeless, asexual, impish, spousal, negroid, eldest, adolescent, simian, sainted, placental mammal, neurasthenic, creaturely, vocal, simple, human, religious, con, natural, real, tender, basic, non, outgoing, raw, approximate, arid, bodily, im, intrinsic, love, melodic, personifications, grandmotherly, proprietorial, grandfatherly, brotherly, paternalistic, solicitous, compassionate, indulgent
Appears in the definition of:
agnation, androgenesis, androgeny, bilateral descent, gaze, paternally, patrilineage, patronymic, synapsis, unilateral, unilateralist
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Also try:agnate, agnatic, fatherlike, related
— Nouns for paternal: grandfather, grandmother, authority, uncle, grandparents, care, affection, government, love, side, power, more...
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