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Filial

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective Filial has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

Filiala. [L. filialis, fr. filius son, filia daughter; akin to e. female, feminine. Cf. Fitz.].
  •  Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Bearing the relation of a child.  [1913 Webster]
    "And thus the filial Godhead answering spoke."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Filial, adj.
1 of or due from a son or daughter.
2 Biol. bearing the relation of offspring (cf. F(2) 5).

Derivative
filially adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF filial or LL filialis f. filius son, filia daughter

THESAURUS

Filial

adoring, affectionate, conjugal, daughterlike, daughterly, demonstrative, devoted, faithful, fond, husbandly, languishing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal, melting, parental, paternal, romantic, sentimental, soft, sonlike, sonly, tender, uxorious, wifely

ROGET THESAURUS

Filial

Posterity

N posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat, family, grandchildren, heirs, great-grandchild, child, son, daughter, butcha, bantling, scion, acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch, off-shoot, off- set, ramification, descendant, heir, heiress, heir-apparent, heir- presumptive, chip off the old block, heredity, rising generation, straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture, filial, diphyletic, the child is father of the man, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, like father, like son.

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