Paternal

What do we mean by paternal?

Relating to or characteristic of a father or fatherhood; fatherly. adjective

Received or inherited from a father. adjective

Related through one's father. adjective

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.

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. 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). 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 adjective

Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family

Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.

Received or inherited from one's father.

Acting as a father

Words that are spelled similarly to paternal:
paternal, maternal, paterna, material, lateral, eternal, external, internal, fraternal, patera, sternal, pasternak, asternal, patronal, patena, patrial, avernal, paterno, paterae, materna, waterval, paternaty.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word paternal:
grandparents, grandmother, grandfather, maternal, aunt, uncle, allele, ancestors, granddaughter, cousins, claudius, ancestry, cousin, chromosome, lineage, immigrated, chromosomes, ancestor, descendant, rothschild, duchess, grandson, inheritance, emigrated, countess, descended, offspring, descent, princess, consul, surname, niece, sperm, siblings, relatives, immigrant, consort, isabella, nephew, viscount, empress, eleanor, marcus, elder, duke, earl, baronet, baron, maria, mother, father, immigrants, inherited, genes, marie, catherine, margaret, prince, dna, louise, clan, genetic, eldest, daughter, heir, emperor, sister, educated, younger, bin, anne, count, parents, wife, jewish, queen, khan, divorced, rabbi, philip, muhammad, sir, brother, elizabeth, throne, descendants, shah, marriage, anna, denmark, family, merchant, king, roman, sultan, iii, mar, married, armenian, henry.

Words that rhyme with paternal:
journal, eternal, diurnal, kernel, colonel, nocturnal, external, internal, vernal, maternal, infernal, fraternal, urnal, sternal, bernal, lieutenant colonel, palm kernel, life eternal, light colonel, burnell, pernell, purnell, durnell, durnil, fern hill, herne hill, return nil, return null, smpte journal.

Adjectives that are often used to describe paternal:
more, maternal, most, less, own, same, fond, only, very, homologous, eminently, somewhat, male, pure, quite, least, mild, traditional, conjugal, active, separate, strong, original, half, gallant, authoritarian, even, gentle, slow, excellent, wise, genuinely, perfunctory, female, sacred, privileged, energetic, corresponding, warm, masculine, parental, benevolent, fierce, nigh, monstrous, highly, silent, motherly, expanded, cool, tenths, sweet, chiefly, firm, deceased, nearest, humane, kindliest, earliest, longer, fraternal, fourcelled, remote, concerned, familiar, marital, strict.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective paternal:
grandfather, grandmother, authority, uncle, grandparents, care, affection, government, love, side, power, aunt, roof, estate, inheritance, ancestors, line, involvement, role, interest, uncles, home, age, ancestor, figure, solicitude, tenderness, mansion, relatives, pride, property, behavior, origin, family, function, kindness, acres, influence, character, heart, relationship, feelings, house, chromosome, aunts, rule, responsibility, feeling, cousin, chromosomes, attitude, advice, instinct, investment, ancestry, cousins, blessing, kin, despotism, absence, name, metaphor, descent, deprivation, tone, rights, concern, protection, benevolence, arms, estates, heritage, eye, allele, lineage, farm, discipline, smile, transmission, image, guidance, fondness, parent, figures, duty, regard, exposure, genes, participation, antigens.

Words that sound like paternal:
paternal, paternally, petrel, patrol, parnell, patrole, parnel, patrial, patterning, petrol, potential, betrayal, maternal, patina, potencial, epidermal, purnell, pernell, pernel, patena, eternal, butternut, puttering, butter nut, bottrell, petal, peril, patel, petra, paternity, pectoral, pettle, pittle, petrina, patil, pennel, perel, pennell, pinnell, petzel, pytel, petrea, petrels, pernelle, parial, pernil, penale, petit mal, pretrial, pattern, puddle, patterns, panel, pummel, portrayal, penal, epidural, pastoral, pannel, patrols, putnam, patra, patterned, patrolled, putney, buttermilk, pottle, pattle, pannell, panal, parrel, patna, patria, patroller, peterman, parral, passional, pitino, pernille, pootle, pinal, better now, patro, pownall, pudendal, pudel, potentiel, watermill, water mill, butter milk, pietra, pierna, puttnam, pantanal, bitternut, paterna, petrelli, pepper mill, peppermill, petrella.