hereditary

Meaning

Adj

1. Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
2. Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
3. Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
4. Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes.
5. Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.

Noun

A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

Synonyms

ancestral

inherited

innate

inborn

patrimonial

transmissible

congenital

familial

inherent

inheritable

heritable

genetic

transmitted

descendent

handed down

generation after generation

native

natural

paternal

ancestorial

traditional

ancestrial

transmittable

descended lineally

inheritable character

descendant

for generations

heredity

imported

atavistic

a priori

Translations

héréditaire

ereditario

hereditario

erblich

κληρονομικός

erfelijk

hereditari

hereditário

Erb-

avito

heredado

erf-

ererbt

kalıtsal

Pronounced as (IPA)

/həˈɹɛdɪt(ə)ɹi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English hereditarie, from Latin hērēditārius, from hērēditās (“inheritance”), from hērēs (“heir”).