"Don't look alike do you?" "That's because we're fraternal twins."
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Fraternal
//fɹəˈtɝnəl//
Synonyms for "fraternal" (57 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (28)
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
13 entriescoordinate
3 entriesderived
12 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- أَخَوِيّ adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Armenian
1 entries- եղբայրական adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Belarusian
2 entries- бра́цкі adj (of or pertaining brothers)
- братэ́рскі adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Bulgarian
1 entries- бра́тски adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Catalan
1 entries- fratern adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Czech
1 entries- bratrský adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Danish
1 entries- broderlig adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Dutch
1 entries- broederlijk adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Finnish
4 entries- epäidenttinen adj (genetics: of twins or embryos, produced from two different eggs and sperm, and genetically distinct)
- erimunainen adj (genetics: of twins or embryos, produced from two different eggs and sperm, and genetically distinct)
- toverillinen adj (platonic or friendly)
- veljellinen adj (of or pertaining brothers)
French
1 entries- fraternel adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Galician
2 entries- fraternal adj (of or pertaining brothers)
- fraterno adj (of or pertaining brothers)
German
1 entries- brüderlich adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Greek
1 entries- αδελφικός adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Hindi
1 entries- भ्रात्रीय adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Ido
2 entries- fratala adj (of or pertaining brothers)
- fratatra adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Irish
3 entries- bráithriúil adj (of or pertaining brothers)
- bráthartha adj (of or pertaining brothers)
- deartháiriúil adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Italian
2 entries- fraternale adj (of or pertaining brothers)
- fraterno adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Macedonian
1 entries- братски adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Manx
1 entries- braaroil adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- broderlig adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Polish
1 entries- braterski adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Portuguese
2 entries- fraternal adj (of or pertaining brothers)
- fraterno adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Romanian
3 entries- de frate adj (of or pertaining brothers)
- fratern adj (of or pertaining brothers)
- frățesc adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Russian
1 entries- бра́тский adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Sanskrit
1 entries- भ्रात्रीय adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- bràithreil adj (of or pertaining brothers)
- comh-bhràthaireil adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- bràtskī adj (of or pertaining brothers)
- бра̀тскӣ adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Slovak
1 entries- bratský adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Slovene
1 entries- bratski adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Spanish
3 entries- bivitelino adj (genetics: of twins or embryos, produced from two different eggs and sperm, and genetically distinct)
- fraternal adj (of or pertaining brothers)
- fraterno adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Swedish
1 entries- broderlig adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бра́тський adj (of or pertaining brothers)
- брате́рський adj (of or pertaining brothers)
Sample sentences
29 total sentences available.
"You don't look like each other." "That's because we're fraternal twins."
Source: tatoeba (487159)
Are they identical or fraternal twins?
Source: tatoeba (3651192)
Algeria and Morocco are geographically and culturally like fraternal twins.
Source: tatoeba (7863106)
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