Hyphenation of paternalistic

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word paternalistic? This word can be hyphenated and contains 5 syllables as shown below.

pa-ter-nal-is-tic

Synonyms of paternalistic:

adj	paternal

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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