Antonyms for Offspring
ˈɔfˌsprɪŋ, ˈɒf-off·spring

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1. offspringnoun

   Antonyms:
   genitor, father, parent, progenitor, mother

   Synonyms:
   issue, baby, child, get

2. offspringnoun

   Synonyms:
   lineage, descendant, get, progeny

   Antonyms:
   forefather, ancestor, forebear, forbear

Matched Categories

1. • Animal
   • Consequence
   • Relative

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1. offspring, progeny, issuenoun

   the immediate descendants of a person

   "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"

   Synonyms:
   materialization, topic, young, emergence, progeny, subject, effect, offspring, military issue, materialisation, number, issuance, result, proceeds, exit, event, matter, yield, egress, outlet, outcome, return, government issue, take, takings, issuing, upshot, publication, payoff, issue, way out, consequence

2. offspring, materialization, materialisationnoun

   something that comes into existence as a result

   "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"; "this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"

   Synonyms:
   young, offspring, manifestation, issue, progeny, materialization, materialisation

3. young, offspringnoun

   any immature animal

   Synonyms:
   young, youth, offspring, issue, progeny, materialization, materialisation

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1. offspringnoun

   Synonyms:
   children, issue, progeny, posterity, descendants

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. offspring

   Synonyms:
   Progeny, see there
   

How to use Offspring in a sentence?

1. Terrisa Bukovinac:

   Rep. Pressleys attempt to paint a truly life-saving amendment, one designed specifically to protect black, brown, and underprivileged people from being coerced by the state into choosing abortion, is severely problematic, the Hyde amendment has saved more than 2 million lives that are disproportionately black and brown. Suggesting that these people are better off dead is itself an expression of the white supremacist ideals that gave birth to the abortion industry in the first place! The American people deserve better than state sanctioned violence against their own offspring and the majority of Democrats agree. Taking a position against Hyde is a losing one.

2. Kahlil Gibran:

   It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

3. Cervantes:

   No fathers and mothers think their own children ugly, and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

4. Florence Brown:

   This is supported by the fact that women with the best diabetes control. . . in pregnancy had offspring that performed better academically than offspring of. . . women without diabetes, the authors of this study do endorse this as a possible explanation for their findings.

5. Wulf Palinski:

   Further research is warranted to understand the exact mechanisms, but high cholesterol in mothers may impact the development of organ systems in the fetus or leave a lasting imprint on the regulation of genes that help maintain cholesterol levels in the adult offspring.

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