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

adj. Received or inherited from a father: a paternal trait.

adj. Related through one's father: my paternal aunt.

adj. 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).

adj. Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.

adj. Received or inherited from one's father.

adj. Acting as a father; as in "paternal filicide" (murder of a son committed by his father).

adj. Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father.

adj. Received or derived from a father; hereditary.

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.

adj. belonging to or inherited from one's father

adj. relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent

adj. characteristic of a father

adj. related on the father's side

"“Just so,” said Mr Low — only that what you call a paternal government is not always quiet and orderly."

fatherlike    paternalistic    fatherly    related   

maternal   

paternal government   

paternal cousin    paternal grandmother    paternal grandfather    paternal aunt    paternal filicide    paternally    paternalistic    paternalism    paternal uncle   

fatherly    hereditary    inherited    descended   

colonel    diurnal    eternal    external    fraternal    infernal    internal    journal    kernel    maternal   

maternal    fatherly    affectionate    benevolent    filial    brotherly    indulgent    royal    cordial    ancestral