MATERNAL QUALITY Synonyms

• a loving feeling

• feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others

• zealous in devotion or affection

• (followed by `to') dedicated exclusively to a purpose or use

• soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe

• having or showing a kindly or tender nature

• quiet and soothing

• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

• easily handled or managed

• having little impact

• marked by moderate steepness

• cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

• give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility

• stroke soothingly

• feeling or showing love and affection

• in a maternal manner; as a mother

• befitting a mother; warm and nurturing

• intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind

• showing care

• (usually followed by `of') solicitously caring or mindful

• given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality

• easy to cut or chew

• physically untoughened

• something that can be used as an official medium of payment

• someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

• a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

• car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

• a boat for communication between ship and shore

• ship that usually provides supplies to other ships

• hurting

• young and immature

• having or displaying warmth or affection

• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

• (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition

• offer or present for acceptance

• propose a payment

• make a tender of; in legal settlements

• make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer

• having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat

• psychologically warm; friendly and responsive

• inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color

• in a warm manner

• freshly made or left

• easily aroused or excited

• characterized by strong enthusiasm

• characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement

• uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble

• of a seeker; near to the object sought

• get warm or warmer

• make warm or warmer

• the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

• help develop, help grow

• look after a child until it is an adult

• provide with nourishment

• the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother

• motherly care; behavior characteristic of a mother; the practice of acting as a mother does toward her children

• the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus

• the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother

• the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother

• the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother