Synonyms of the word

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.

agnate

• n. A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.
• n. Any paternal male relative.
• adj. Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
• adj. allied; akin.
• adj. (linguistics) Having a similar semantic meaning.

agnatic

• adj. of the male bloodline; patrilineal.

fatherlike

• adj. having the qualities of a father.

fatherly

• adj. Characteristic of what is considered the ideal behaviour pertaining to fatherhood.
• adj. Characteristic of fathers, paternal.

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.

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.

paternalistic

• adj. the quality of being paternal, i.e. like a father, e.g. characterized by behaving in benevolent and yet…
• adj. of, pertaining to, characteristic of or practicing paternalism.

patriarchal

• adj. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
• adj. Relating to a system run by males, rather than females.

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.