parental

Pluralparentals

1. 1
   adjective

   Connected with a mother or father, or with being one.

   Parental support helps kids do well in school.

   She needed parental permission to go on the trip.

   Oppositefilial

2. 2
   adjective

   Kind and caring in the way a good parent is.

   He gave the new students a warm, parental welcome.

   Her parental tone made the frightened child feel safe.

   Similarpaternal, maternal, fatherly, motherly, protective

3. 3
   adjective

   Belonging to the parent plants or animals whose young is a mix of two types.

   The two parental plants gave the new flower its mixed colors.

   Scientists compared the parental kinds to see which traits passed on.

   Oppositefilial

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   A person who acts as a parent to someone.

   After her parents moved overseas, her older brother became her main parental.

   All of Mia's parentals came to her graduation: her mom, her stepdad, and her grandma.

   Similarguardian, caregiver, carer

   Oppositeward

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