hereditary

Speech parts

1. hereditary - Adjective

2. hereditary - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.

Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

patrimonial ancestral natal genealogical born nee native genetic transmitted inherent tribal built-in intrinsic innate paternal

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Antonyms

vagabond new different wanderer acquired artificial

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Phrases with the word

Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy hereditary unit hereditary illness Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy hereditary neuropaty with liability to pressure palsy non-hereditary disease

Anagrams

erythraeid

Examples

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. Carl Sagan

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Walter Scott

Insanity is hereditary. You can catch it from your kids. Erma Bombeck

He flourishes by hereditary renown. Latin Proverb

Beware of men who flourish hereditary honors. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

hereditable hereditament hereditarianism hereditary achromatopsia hereditary ailment hereditary angioedema