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

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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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1. Karl Marx:

   Capital is money, capital is commodities.. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays golden eggs.

2. Joanna Kitlinska:

   But our study shows the same thing to be true with fathers — his lifestyle, and how old he is, can be reflected in molecules that control gene function, in this way, a father can affect not only his immediate offspring, but future generations as well.

3. Rachel Yehuda:

   The gene changes in the children could only be attributed to Holocaust exposure in the parents, to our knowledge, this provides the first demonstration of transmission of pre-conception stress effects resulting in epigenetic changes in both the exposed parents and their offspring in humans.

4. Florence Brown:

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

5. Brendan Zietsch:

   We can't rule out the possibility that extreme environmental events, like famine, could affect offspring sex ratios. But we can say for sure that the variability of environments that Swedes born after 1932 experienced did not affect their having boys or girls.