Synonyms for offspring
ˈɔfˌsprɪŋ, ˈɒf-off·spring

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1. offspringnoun

   Synonyms:
   issue, baby, child, get

   Antonyms:
   genitor, father, parent, progenitor, mother

2. offspringnoun

   Synonyms:
   lineage, descendant, get, progeny

   Antonyms:
   forefather, ancestor, forebear, forbear

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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

Matched Categories

1. • Animal
   • Consequence
   • Relative

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1. offspringnoun

   Synonyms:
   issue, progeny, child or children, descendant or descendants, posterity

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1. offspringnoun

   Synonyms:
   children, issue, progeny, posterity, descendants

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1. List of paraphrases for "offspring":

   progeny, descent, brood, descendant, offshoot

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

1. offspring

   Synonyms:
   Progeny, see there
   

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How to use offspring in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Florence Brown:

   But when we see an association between maternal higher( blood sugar) in pregnancy and worse offspring academic achievement we can not 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.

3. Joanna Kitlinska:

   Up to 75 percent of children with FASD have biological fathers who are alcoholics, suggesting that preconceptual paternal alcohol consumption negatively impacts their offspring.

4. 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.

5. 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.