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DictionaryfilialChild’s relationship to a parent
adjective

filial

FIL-ee-ul/ˈfɪliəl/

Relating to a child’s relationship with a parent.

The daughter shows filial affection as she helps her mother into a cardigan.

Adult daughter gently helps elderly mother put on warm cardigan and offers affectionate attentive expression, duties and feelings toward parent explicit.
Etymology
filiLatinson
+alLatinrelating to

Built on the word for “son,” filial describes the child's side of the parent–child relationship. Its Latin ancestor covered daughters too, matching its use for any child's duties or affection toward parents.

In context

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More examples

  • His letters expressed filial affection.
  • The novel explores filial loyalty and independence.
  • He visited regularly out of genuine filial concern.

Forms

filial

Similar words

parental
Parental concerns a parent’s role toward a child; filial concerns the child’s relationship toward the parent.
familial
Familial concerns family relationships generally; filial specifically concerns a son or daughter.