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Antonyms for maternal
məˈtɜr nlma·ter·nal

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  1. maternaladjective

    Antonyms:
    paternal

  2. maternaladjective

    His weakness seemed to bring out her maternal instincts.

    Antonyms:
    paternal

  3. maternaladjective

    Toby is my maternal uncle.

    Antonyms:
    paternal

  4. maternaladjective

    Antonyms:
    paternal

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. maternaladjective

    characteristic of a mother

    "warm maternal affection for her guest"- Dorothy Sayers

    Antonyms:
    unrelated, paternal, fatherlike, fatherly, paternalistic

    Synonyms:
    maternal(p), parental, paternal, enate, enatic

  2. maternaladjective

    relating to or derived from one's mother

    "maternal genes"

    Antonyms:
    fatherly, paternal, fatherlike, paternalistic, unrelated

    Synonyms:
    maternal(p), parental, paternal, enate, enatic

  3. parental, maternal, paternaladjective

    relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent

    "parental guidance"

    Antonyms:
    paternal, paternalistic, unrelated, fatherly, fatherlike

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

  4. enate, enatic, maternal(p)adjective

    related on the mother's side

    "my maternal grandmother"

    Antonyms:
    paternalistic, paternal, fatherlike, unrelated, fatherly

How to use maternal in a sentence?

  1. Laura Veltz:

    Watching her become a mother has been its own friendship high for me, even some of the straight up love songs that we wrote, you can still feel this sort of maternal long game approach to life and love.

  2. Laura Schieve:

    One theory that we could not look at and needs further research was some small studies have linked maternal obesity to increased inflammation, which might affect fetal brain development.

  3. Mary Szoch:

    Vice President Harris’s statement that ‘women will die’ if Roe is overturned relies heavily on the lie that abortion is safe and necessary for women, she fails to acknowledge that the United States has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the developed world, while having the most liberal abortion laws in the world.

  4. Phyllis Mcginley:

    God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.

  5. Veronica Hinton:

    Given that multiple factors seem to contribute to falling in the lower 5 percent on school readiness measures - including living in an impoverished household, primary language other than English, lower maternal education, and black maternal race, as well as late preterm (birth) - it is reasonable to believe that the reasons why some late preterm children are at risk are multi-factorial.

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