When one would be filial, one's parents are gone.
Source: tatoeba (240729)
Filial
//ˈfi.li.əl//
Synonyms for "filial" (28 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (14)
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Antonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescoordinate
5 entriesderived
8 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
10 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
55 translations across 30 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- إِبْنِيّ adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Belarusian
3 entries- даччы́н adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- сы́наў adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- сыно́ўскі adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Bulgarian
3 entries- дъ́щерен adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- на дъщеря́ adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- сино́вен adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Catalan
1 entries- filial adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 孝順嘅 /孝顺嘅 adj (respectful of the duties and attitudes of a son or daughter toward their parents)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 子代的 adj (of descending generation or generations)
- 子女的 adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- 孝順的 /孝顺的 adj (respectful of the duties and attitudes of a son or daughter toward their parents)
Czech
1 entries- synovský adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Danish
2 entries- datterlig (daughterly) adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- sønlig (sonly) adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Dutch
2 entries- dochterlijk (daughterly) adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- zoonlijk adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Esperanto
2 entries- fila adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- filina adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Estonian
1 entries- lapselik adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Finnish
4 entries- jälkeläis adj (of descending generation or generations)
- jälki- (in term jälkipolvi) adj (of descending generation or generations)
- lapsenomainen adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- lapsenomainen adj (respectful of the duties and attitudes of a son or daughter toward their parents)
French
1 entries- filial adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Galician
1 entries- filial adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
German
3 entries- filial adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- söhnlich (sonly) adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- töchterlich (daughterly) adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Greek
1 entries- θυγατρικός adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Italian
1 entries- filiale adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Japanese
1 entries- 孝行する adj (respectful of the duties and attitudes of a son or daughter toward their parents)
Korean
2 entries- 효도하다 adj (respectful of the duties and attitudes of a son or daughter toward their parents)
- 효행하다 adj (respectful of the duties and attitudes of a son or daughter toward their parents)
Manx
1 entries- macoil adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- datterlig (daughterly) adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- sønnlig (sonly) adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- barnleg adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Polish
2 entries- córczyny (daughterly) adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- synowski (sonly) adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Portuguese
1 entries- filial adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Russian
4 entries- доче́рний adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- дочери́нский adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- сыно́вий adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- сыно́вний adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- macail adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Slovak
1 entries- synovský adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Spanish
1 entries- filial adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Ukrainian
4 entries- до́ньчин adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- доччи́н adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- дочі́рній adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
- си́нів adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Welsh
1 entries- mabol (sonly) adj (pertaining to a son or daughter)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
To raise one's name in later generations and thereby glorify one's parents, this is the greatest expression of filial piety.
Source: tatoeba (961407)
These five principles were loyalty, filial duty, trustworthiness, valor, and justice.
Source: tatoeba (5940133)
"To thee, yea, thee, fierce miscreant", he cried, / may Heaven, if Heaven with righteous eyes behold / so foul an outrage and a deed so bold, / ne'er fail a fitting guerdon to ordain, / nor worthy quittance for thy crime withhold, / whose hand hath made me see my darling slain, / and dared with filial blood a father's eyes profane."
Source: tatoeba (6846493)
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