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Paternal vs Unpaternal - What's the difference?

paternal | unpaternal |

As adjectives the difference between paternal and unpaternal

is that paternal is of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family while unpaternal is not paternal; not befitting a father.

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

    * ----

    unpaternal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not paternal; not befitting a father.

    • Synonyms

    * unfatherly