| Main Entry: | maternal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | motherly |
Synonyms: |
affectionate, kind, parental, protective, sympathetic |
Antonyms: |
paternal |
| Main Entry: | ancestral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | related to previous family or family trait |
Synonyms: |
affiliated, born with, congenital, consanguine, consanguineous, familial, genealogical, in the family, inborn, inbred, inherited, innate, lineal, maternal, old, past, paternal, running in the family, totemic, tribal |
| Main Entry: | female |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having the qualities or characteristics of a woman |
Synonyms: |
effeminate, fecund, feminine, fertile, maternal, muliebrous, womanish, womanly |
Antonyms: |
male, masculine |
| Main Entry: | hereditary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inherited; transmitted at birth |
Synonyms: |
ancestral, bequeathed, family, genealogical, genetic, handed down, heritable, inborn, inbred, inheritable, inherited, lineal, maternal, paternal, patrimonial, traditional, transmissible, transmitted, willed |
Antonyms: |
acquired |
| Main Entry: | parental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having the quality or nature of a parent |
Synonyms: |
affectionate, benevolent, benign, caring, comforting, devoted, fatherly, fond, forbearing, gentle, indulgent, kind, loving, maternal, matriarchal, motherly, paternal, patriarchal, protective, sheltering, supportive, tender, warm, watchful |
| Main Entry: | motherly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | caring |
Synonyms: |
affectionate, careful, caretaking, comforting, devoted, fond, gentle, kind, loving, maternal, nurturing, protecting, protective, sheltering, supporting, sympathetic, tender, warm, watchful |
| Main Entry: | distaff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feminine |
Synonyms: |
female, femalelike, ladylike, maternal, muliebral, womanish, womanly |
| Main Entry: | patrimonial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ancestral |
Synonyms: |
affiliated, born with, congenital, consanguine, consanguineous, familial, genealogical, hereditary, in the family, inborn, inbred, inherited, innate, lineal, maternal, old, past, paternal, running in the family, totemic, tribal |
| Main Entry: | female |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
female, Sardanapalian, catamenial, effeminate, enate, feminine, gemelliparous, gynecic, gynecocentric, gynecomorphous, ladylike, maidenly, matricentric, matripotestal, matronly, matronymic, muliebral, muliebrous, nulliparous, she, thelytokous, unfeminine, unwomanly, womanly
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