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Paternal vs Daddyish - What's the difference?

paternal | daddyish |

As adjectives the difference between paternal and daddyish

is that paternal is of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family while daddyish is (informal) resembling or characteristic of a father; paternal.

paternal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family
    • paternal grandfather
  • Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
  • Received or inherited from one's father.
  • * Dryden
    • their small paternal field of corn
  • Acting as a father
    • paternal filicide

    Derived terms

    * paternalism * paternalistic * paternally * paternal aunt * paternal cousin * paternal grandfather * paternal grandmother * paternal uncle

    Antonyms

    * maternal – mother

    Coordinate terms

    * avuncular – uncle * maternal – mother * materteral – aunt

    Anagrams

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    daddyish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a father; paternal.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 3, author=Janet Maslin, title=When Love Goes Wrong, Put on the Chicken Suit, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Often the nice people are women, and the good fortune arrives in the form of protective, daddyish suitors who enjoy lavishing compliments and Champagne on the objects of their attention. }}