Synonyms for familial


Grammar : Adj
Spell : fuh-mil-yuh l, -mil-ee-uh l
Phonetic Transcription : fəˈmɪl yəl, -ˈmɪl i əl


Définition of familial

Origin :
  • from French familial, from Latin familia (see family). Meaning "hereditary" is from 1900; "family-like" is from 1903.
  • adj ancestral
Example sentences :
  • In this case also the whole movement of a life takes place in the magic circle of the familial constellation.
  • Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
  • A chivalrous young American may offer his life for a remote ideal which yet may belong to his familial tradition.
  • Extract from : « The Arrow of Gold » by Joseph Conrad
  • Race is such a transcendent parameter and so are gender, familial affiliation or contacts and influence.
  • Extract from : « After the Rain » by Sam Vaknin
  • He'd clap his hand upon my shoulder and cuss me as familial and neighbourly as if he'd been a common chap.
  • Extract from : « A Pair of Blue Eyes » by Thomas Hardy
  • Again it struck me that they bore a familial kinship to a variety that occurred on the plain.
  • Extract from : « Attrition » by Jim Wannamaker
  • There are, moreover, varying strains of spirochetes which differ in virulence, or there are familial idiosyncrasies.
  • Extract from : « The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation » by Austin O'Malley

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