Synonyms for parental
pəˈrɛn tlparental

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1. parentaladjective

   designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced

   Synonyms:
   paternal, maternal

   Antonyms:
   filial, daughterly

2. parental, maternal, paternaladjective

   relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent

   "parental guidance"

   Synonyms:
   enate, paternal, agnatic, maternal(p), agnate, enatic, maternal

   Antonyms:
   daughterly, filial

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1. List of paraphrases for "parental":

   parenting, parents, parent, paternal, parentale, child-rearing, child-raising, biparental, childcare, patriarchal, parenthood

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1. Supervisor Scott Wiener:

   Our country's parental leave policies are woefully behind the rest of the world, and today San Francisco has taken the lead in pushing for better family leave policies for our workers.

2. Jessica Biel:

   My Hollywood experience as a young person was never one of those True Hollywood stories where I was left alone to my own devices with no parental supervision, there was always somebody with me.

3. Irwin Redlener:

   If I was running the training for agents, I'd say, William Schaffner're acting as a parental surrogate and as such have to pay attention as if this were William Schaffner own child, the government has taken custody of these children, and they have to own that responsibility. Irwin Redlener can't just take custody without responsibility.

4. Chief Mike Tupper:

   The parents had a typical parental discussion with their child on home rules. We don't have any indications that's why he left the home, there was no anger.

5. Charles Mathias, Jr.:

   The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility.