Synonyms of the word

maternal

• adj. Of or pertaining to a mother; having the characteristics of a mother, motherly.
• adj. Related through the mother, or her side of the family.
• adj. (anatomy, medicine) Derived from the mother as opposed to the foetus during pregnancy.

enate

• n. A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
• n. Any maternal female relative.
• adj. Related to someone by female connections.
• adj. Related on the maternal side of the family.
• adj. (linguistics) Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
• adj. Growing out.

enatic

• adj. enate (related through female line).

maternalistic

• adj. Exhibiting or relating to maternalism.

matriarchal

• adj. Governed by (or as if by) a matriarch.
• adj. Governed by females, rather than by males.

motherlike

• adj. Having the quality or suggestive of a mother; maternal, motherly.

motherly

• adj. Befitting a mother, warm, caring, nurturing, protective, loving.

parent

• n. One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
• n. A surrogate mother.
• n. A third person who has provided DNA samples in a IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
• n. A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
• n. (obsolete) A relative.
• n. The source or origin of something.
• n. (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
• n. (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
• n. (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
• v. To act as parent, to raise or rear.

parental

• adj. of or relating to a parent.
• adj. (genetics) of the generation of organisms that produce a hybrid.
• n. A person fulfilling a parental role.

paternal

• adj. Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.
• adj. Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
• adj. Received or inherited from one's father.
• adj. Acting as a father.

related

• adj. Standing in relation or connection.
• adj. Being a relative of.
• adj. Narrated; told.
• adj. (music) Same as the adjective relative.
• adj. (mathematics) Fulfilling a relation.
• adj. (in combination) Having a relationship with the thing named.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of relate.