Synonyms for father
Another word for father is male parent, begetter or sire. Below are 14 synonyms and 30 related words across 6 senses, with antonyms.
Also searched as: fathered, fathering, fathers.
1. noun: a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- male parent
- begetter
Antonyms
2. noun: the founder of a family
- sire synonyms
- forefather
3. noun: a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
4. noun: a person who founds or establishes some institution
- founder synonyms
- founding father
- beginner synonyms
5. noun: the head of an organized crime family
- don synonyms
6. verb: make (offspring) by reproduction
- get synonyms
- mother synonyms
- bring forth synonyms
- generate synonyms
- sire synonyms
- engender
- beget
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- old man
- father-in-law
- dad synonyms
- pop synonyms
- parent synonyms
- pa synonyms
- daddy synonyms
- papa synonyms
- dada synonyms
- pater
- pappa
- root synonyms
- ancestor synonyms
- patriarch
- ascendant
- antecedent
- ascendent
- leader
- co-founder
- mastermind synonyms
- originator
- cofounder
- colonizer
- foundress
- coloniser
- conceiver
- head synonyms
- chief synonyms
- top dog
- create
Father in word games
- Letters
- 6
- Scrabble
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 11
- How common
- Everyday word
- Unscramble FATHER
- Is FATHER a word?
- Words starting with F
Questions people ask
What is another word for father?
You can say male parent, begetter, sire, forefather or founder instead of father. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)".
What is the opposite of father?
The opposite of father is mother.
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