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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent
Example:
parental guidance
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Antonym:
filial (relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring)
Derivation:
parent (a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)
Antonym:
filial (designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation)
Pertainym:
parent (a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian)
Derivation:
parent (a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian)
Context examples:
Factors such as low parental warmth and low marital satisfaction, for example, can really affect women’s mental health.
(Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas, University of Cambridge)
A standard survey tool for assessing the parental resolution of conflict between parents and children, including nonviolent discipline and physical aggression.
(Conflicts Tactics Scale, Parent-Child, NCI Thesaurus)
The Musgroves are behaving like themselves, most honourably and kindly, only anxious with true parental hearts to promote their daughter's comfort.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Any type of homology-dependent DNA strand exchange occuring during gametogenesis and involving synapsis of parental homologs, strand breakage and exchange of segments to yield unique combinations of genes in the gamete.
(Meiotic Recombination, NCI Thesaurus)
The baby behemoths were active, capable of a wider array of maneuvers than adult members of their species, and didn't need parental care after hatching.
(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)
But Mr. Yates, having never been with those who thought much of parental claims, or family confidence, could not perceive that anything of the kind was necessary; and therefore, thanking them, said, he preferred remaining where he was, that he might pay his respects to the old gentleman handsomely since he was come; and besides, he did not think it would be fair by the others to have everybody run away.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Links between child outcomes and parental wellbeing have been shown in other studies, but this is the first to involve couples, track parental wellbeing in both parents over an extended period of time, and focus on child behaviour in the first two years of life.
(Prenatal parental stress linked to behaviour problems in toddlers, University of Cambridge)
We were born in the same parish, within the same park; the greatest part of our youth was passed together; inmates of the same house, sharing the same amusements, objects of the same parental care.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Micawber told us, that when he heard her sing the first one, on the first occasion of his seeing her beneath the parental roof, she had attracted his attention in an extraordinary degree; but that when it came to Little Tafflin, he had resolved to win that woman or perish in the attempt.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Thorpe's interest in the family, by his sister's approaching connection with one of its members, and his own views on another (circumstances of which he boasted with almost equal openness), seemed sufficient vouchers for his truth; and to these were added the absolute facts of the Allens being wealthy and childless, of Miss Morland's being under their care, and—as soon as his acquaintance allowed him to judge—of their treating her with parental kindness.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
