DADDIES Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

daddies

noun

plural of daddy

as in dads

a male human parent I stopped calling my father "Daddy" because I thought it sounded childish

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something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed Cook's Tours can be considered the daddy of all organized travel tours

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Recent Examples of daddies Vegas is full of bachelor parties, drag revues, Elvis impersonators, wedding chapels, showgirls, leather daddies, casino grandmas, and enough sequins to blind Liberace. — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 12 June 2026 One of the world’s most famous baby daddies is getting a Netflix docuseries to chronicle his hectic life. — Michael Schneider, Variety, 13 May 2026 The options are vast, ranging from Rita Ora vamping on one station and drunk gay daddies being spotlighted on another. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025 Some people's mommies and daddies really, really struggle with money, and that is not something to ever make fun of somebody for. — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025 The baby daddies are family to me. — Jordan Greene, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025

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Noun

There were a bunch of kids in line, and many dads or older brothers who were interested in seeing him (autographs were for 12 and under only).

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
But the pilot is now out in the world and Hal Jordan — the most famous Green Lantern of DC Comics, played by one of the more beloved TV dads of our time, Friday Night Lights alum Kyle Chandler — is dead.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Essay Get the Lead Out Alex Manley Our ancestors were born to die by predators.

— Naomi Skwarna, hazlitt.net, 25 Aug. 2026
For the last decade, genealogical consultant Grant Din has helped Asian Americans find information about their ancestors, many of whom passed through San Francisco’s Angel Island Immigration Station in the 1900s.

— Stephanie Lam, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of ancestors

Noun

In Brothers, both McConaughey and Harrelson’s characters look back at their fathers’ legacies while also navigating being good fathers themselves.

— Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 24 Aug. 2026
Other people are rarely the focus of blame in cases where fathers kill their children.

— Dr. Susan Hatters Friedman, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of fathers

Noun

Margaret and Alice are the forerunners of Lucy and Ethel, and Shakespeare’s comedy, written expressly to entertain, gives us a sense of what an Elizabethan-era situation comedy might look like.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
One of the forerunners today in Madeira and the Azores is António Maçanita from Azores Wine Company.

— Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of forerunners

Noun

The ideology of Third Worldism and the New Agey, anything-goes-style progressivism of the West Coast that Naipaul so keenly lacerates were necessary precursors to the mass death in Guyana.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit, or microchip, and the handheld calculator—early precursors of AI.

— Jordan Blum, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026

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