filial
C2CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
Relating to or befitting the duty and affection of a son or daughter towards a parent.
Out of filial devotion he postponed his own plans to care for his ageing mother.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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