filial
Pertaining to offspring
Filial describes the relationship of a child to a parent: filial duty, filial piety, filial love.
The word appears most often in formal or literary contexts discussing obligations children owe their parents.
In biology, filial generations (F1, F2) are successive offspring in breeding experiments.
Mother or father
father · offspring · siblings · family · household · relatives · kin · firstborn
Faithful commitment to another
- faithfulnessDevoted loyalty maintained
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- commitmentFirm pledge to act
- allegianceLoyalty owed to authority
fealty · steadfastness · affection · love · fondness · attachment · bond · closeness
Required task or commitment
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- obedienceCompliance with authority
- complianceAdhering to requirements
- serviceAid or maintenance
care · support · deference · burden · charge · requirement · expectation · caregiving
parent
Mother or father
mother · father · offspring · siblings · family · household · relatives · kin · firstborn · youngest
loyalty
Faithful commitment to another
- faithfulnessDevoted loyalty maintained
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- commitmentFirm pledge to act
allegiance · fealty · steadfastness · affection · love · fondness · attachment · bond · closeness · reverence
obligation
Required task or commitment
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- obedienceCompliance with authority
- complianceAdhering to requirements
service · care · support · deference · burden · charge · requirement · expectation · caregiving · eldercare
kinship
State of being related
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- descendantsThose who come after
- progenyOne's biological descendants
heritage · bloodline · genealogy · forebears · posterity · heirs · succession · dynasty · clan · inheritance
- institucionesescuela, universidad, academia, hospital, biblioteca
- parentagepaternity, parentage, maternity, fatherhood, motherhood
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- ancestryancestors, kinship, ancestor, clan, ancestry
- geneticsDNA, allele, genotype, genes, gene
- breedingselective breeding, breeder, crossbreeding, mating, breeding pair
filialunfilial
Disrespectful toward parents
disloyal · disobedient · undutiful · disrespectful · ungrateful
- filial pietyRespect owed to parents
- filial dutyObligation to one's parents
- filial loveAffection toward one's parents
- filial devotionLoyalty to one's parents
affiliate, affiliation, affiliated, affiliating, disaffiliation, disaffiliate, filial piety, disaffiliated