Parental Definition

pə-rĕntl
adjective
Of or characteristic of a parent or parents.
Webster's New World
Constituting the source or origin of something.
Webster's New World
Designating or of the generation in which fertilization produces hybrids.
Webster's New World
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noun
A person fulfilling a parental role.
Nowadays there are all kinds of potential parentals besides parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, step-parents, in-laws, older siblings and cousins, and those in civil unions.
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Other Word Forms of Parental

Noun

Singular:
parental
Plural:
parentals

Origin of Parental

  • From Latin parentalis, from parens (“parent")

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Parental Sentence Examples

  • Kids often digress when out from under parental control.

  • Maybe you should set up the parental controls on the TV so they can't watch that garbage, if they have no adult supervision.

  • In modified forms of plants there is frequently a tendency to " sport " or revert to parental or ancestral characteristics.

  • More than one in four children will experience parental divorce by age 16.

  • In psychoanalysis, this voice is called the superego, which Freud conceived as the infantile internalizing of parental authority.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAR

Words Ending With

LALTAL

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parental

Words Starting With P and Ending With L

Starts With P & Ends With LStarts With PA & Ends With LStarts With P & Ends With AL

Word Length

8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With P8 Letter Words Ending With L