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, 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, manifestation, issue, progeny, materialization, materialisation

3. young, offspringnoun

   any immature animal

   Synonyms:
   young, youth, 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. Joanna Kitlinska:

   But our study shows the same thing to be true with fathers — his lifestyle, and how old he is, can be reflected in molecules that control gene function, in this way, a father can affect not only his immediate offspring, but future generations as well.

2. Washington Tapia:

   SOLAR STORMS MIGHT BE CAUSING GRAY WHALES TO GET LOST The famed Galapagos Conservancyas giant tortoise named Diego fathered 40 percent of all tortoises on Espanola Island in Galapagos Conservancyas. ( San Diego Zoo) The 175-pound Diego is a Chelonoidis hoodensis, a species only found in the wild on the island ofEspanola, according to AFP. He reportedly fathered an estimated 800 offspring as of 2016. He was brought to the U.S. between 1928 and 1933 and placed in a breeding center on the Galapagos Conservancyas island of Santa Cruz, after his species was determined to be critically endangered in the 1960s, according to San Diego Zoo. Based on the results of the last censusconducted at the end of 2019and all the data available since 1960 both of the island and its tortoise population... the conclusion was that the island has sufficient conditions to maintain the tortoise population, which will continue to grow normally even without any new repatriation of juveniles.

3. Chris Adami:

   They could either choose to mate with the first, potentially inferior, companion and risk inferior offspring, or they could wait for Mr. or Ms. Perfect to come around.

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. Florence Brown:

   But when we see an association between maternal higher (blood sugar) in pregnancy and worse offspring academic achievement we cannot say that there is cause and effect, while the authors try to adjust for the effect of parental education on child educational performance, there may be other factors that influence offspring academic achievement.

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