noun, plural off·spring, off·springs. a child or animal in relation to its parent or parents. a descendant. descendants collectively. the product, result, or effect of something: the offspring of an inventive mind.

Springing off or outward; developing from something else.

2 Offspring, if the parent used it, would be heard as humorous, certainly not the normal word for this situation; children or kids (informal) would be the normal words. Offspring would be suitable for legal contexts, religious language and serious history books/biographies; too formal.

Offspring is a 9 letter word, used as a noun, a compound word, with Middle English origins, and has the letters ffginoprs (fginoprs).

offspring (n.) Old English ofspring “children or young collectively, descendants,” literally “those who spring off (someone),” from of “away, away from” (see off (prep.)) Similar formation in Old Norse afspringr. The figurative sense “that which is produced by something” is recorded from c. 1600.

What is the opposite of offspring?

What is another word for children?

brood, ancestry, scion, lineage, posterity, spawn, son, pup, smallholder, breeding, seed, strain.

A similar term is recidivist. Denoting a person who repeatedly reoffends. A common quote, often misattributed to Einstein, is. Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.

Words Related to mess (up) blunder, gum (up), muddle, piffle.

Add a comment. 1. In UK English, the phrase “spot the deliberate mistake” is common. It implies the context of a teacher who makes a mistake on purpose so that the students can try to spot and correct it. Nowadays it’s more often used as a sort of “oops” exclamation when someone makes an actual mistake.

While a mistake is unintentional, and an error in judgment can be both with and without intent, an intentional misdirection is all about intent. But the intentional action of misdirection is more than just an error, it’s an error with malice of forethought.

We might say it to them casually. But ‘blunder’ is less formal or informal. And often it’s not a… ‘a blunder’ is often not a big deal, it’s a little: ‘Oh, I’ve made a blunder’- sort of … a little mistake, you know, anyway.

1 : to utter stupidly, confusedly, or thoughtlessly blundered an apology. 2 : to make a stupid, careless, or thoughtless mistake in … blundering matters through ignorance …—

A blunder is just a really bad move, either because you lose material or you end up in a clear losing position. Some people define it as a move that loses the game. A mistake is also a bad move, but the consequences might be less severe. You lose your advantage, but you don’t lose the game.

MISTAKE, BLUNDER and ERROR mean something done incorrectly or improperly. MISTAKE is the most general term used of everyday situation. ERROR is more formal. BLUNDER is a careless mistake often unnecessarily or resulting from misjudgment.

Grandmasters and World Champions are human. They do make mistakes and blunder like 1500 rated players… not as often though.

The only way to win chess in 3 moves – Qh5#. Place the white queen on h5, which attacks the black king with no way of getting out of trouble. The knight and bishop on the king’s side cannot come in the way and neither can any of the pawns. The pieces on the queen’s side are completely trapped as it is.