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Hereditary synonyms

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genetic
(Genetics) Relating to genetics or genes.
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  1. (Genetics) Relating to genetics or genes.
  2. Caused by genes.
  3. Affecting or determined by genes:
innate
Existing as an inherent attribute
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  1. Existing as an inherent attribute
  2. Existing naturally rather than acquired; that seems to have been in one from birth
  3. Existing naturally or by heredity rather than being learned through experience:
paternal
Related through the father's side of the family
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  1. Related through the father's side of the family
  2. Related through one's father:
  3. Received or inherited from a father:
ancestral
Of, relating to, or evolved from an ancestor or ancestors.
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  1. Of, relating to, or evolved from an ancestor or ancestors.
  2. Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.
  3. Of or inherited from an ancestor or ancestors
patrimonial
Of or pertaining to patrimony
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  1. Of or pertaining to patrimony
  2. Legally inherited from one or more ancestors
congenital
Existing at or before birth, as a defect or medical condition.
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  1. Existing at or before birth, as a defect or medical condition.
  2. (Of a trait) Present since birth.
  3. Relating to a condition that is present at birth, as a result of either heredity or environmental influences:
inborn
Existing naturally or by heredity rather than being learned through experience:
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  1. Existing naturally or by heredity rather than being learned through experience:
  2. Inherited or hereditary
  3. Present in the organism at birth; innate; not acquired
innate
Existing as an inherent attribute
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  1. Existing as an inherent attribute
  2. Existing naturally rather than acquired; that seems to have been in one from birth
  3. Existing naturally or by heredity rather than being learned through experience:
native
Natural, unaltered, or unadorned:
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  1. Natural, unaltered, or unadorned:
  2. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of such inhabitants:
  3. Being such by birth or origin:
Find another word for hereditary. In this page you can discover 18 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for hereditary, like: inherited, genetic, innate, paternal, ancestral, innate, ancestral, inherited, patrimonial, congenital and inborn.

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  • We have seen the end of hereditary monarchy.

  • There were no hereditary or formally elected chiefs, nor was there any vestige of monarchy.

  • By the time of the jurists it had become hereditary and compulsory.

  • If it's hereditary, then the mutation has been hidden from us for, like, maybe even hundreds of thousands of years.

  • With the crystallization of the feudal system in the 12th century the office of vidame, like that of avoue, had become an hereditary fief.

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