familial

Speech parts

1. familial - Adjective

2. familial - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

relating to or having the characteristics of a family

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

genealogical family related fraternal brotherly domestic household genetic transmitted tribal paternal heritable filial lineal transmissible

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Antonyms

social municipal civic iconoclastic nonheritable

Related terms

family familiar familiarity familiarly

Phrases with the word

familial Mediterranean fever familial creutzfeldt-jakob disease familial amyloid polyneuropathy familial immunity familial planning familial factors

Examples

The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it. Denise Crosby

Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking. Michael Ovitz

There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer. Jimmy Smits

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. Peter Ackroyd

Going to dancing school, or being in a play, is a very familial feeling. You're around friends. Teri Garr

We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It might sound strange, but I think that secure cocoon of familial love was so nourishing, it gave me the strength to live life on my own. Kiki Dee

Close letter words and terms

famil familect familia familial amyloid polyneuropathy familial British dementia familial creutzfeldt-jakob disease