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. Florence Brown:

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

2. Karl Pillemer:

   If Mom is more emotionally close to one child or another, she is also deeply concerned about what happens to all of her offspring, worry is love, or an expression of it.

3. R. A. Salvatore, Siege of Darkness:

   To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.

4. Rod Mitchell:

   This study is particularly neat because it takes advantage of errors that are known to occur during culture of XY cells, which lead to loss of the Y chromosome and subsequent gain of a second X chromosome, resulting in XX cells that are capable of generating live offspring.

5. Joanna Kitlinska:

   Up to 75 percent of children with FASD have biological fathers who are alcoholics, suggesting that preconceptual paternal alcohol consumption negatively impacts their offspring.