| Main Entry: | genetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coming from heredity |
Synonyms: |
abiogenetic, ancestral, digenetic, eugenic, genesiological, genital, hereditary, historical, matriclinous, patrimonial, phytogenetic, sporogenous, xenogenetic |
Antonyms: |
acquired |
| Main Entry: | hereditary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inherited; transmitted at birth |
Synonyms: |
ancestral, bequeathed, family, genealogical, genetic, handed down, heritable, inborn, inbred, inheritable, inherited, lineal, maternal, paternal, patrimonial, traditional, transmissible, transmitted, willed |
Antonyms: |
acquired |
| Main Entry: | inherent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, hereditary |
Synonyms: |
built-in, characteristic, congenital, connate, constitutional, deep-rooted, deep-seated, distinctive, elementary, essential, fixed, fundamental, genetic, immanent, implicit, in the grain, inborn, inbred, inbuilt, indigenous, indispensable, individual, indwelling, ingrained, inherited, innate, inner, instinctive, integral, integrated, internal, intimate, intrinsic, inward, latent, native, natural, original, part and parcel, resident, running in the family, subjective, unalienable |
| Notes: | the word innate means 'inborn' and should apply to living things; inherent is 'essential, intrinsic' and applies best to nonliving things like ideas |
Antonyms: |
acquired, added, external, extrinsic, incidental, learned |
| Main Entry: | inherited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hereditary |
Synonyms: |
congenital, connate, genetic, handed down, in the blood, in the genes, inborn, inbred, innate, passed down, rooted |
| Main Entry: | racial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ethnic |
Synonyms: |
ancestral, ethnological, folk, genealogical, genetic, hereditary, lineal, national, phyletic, phylogenetic, tribal |
| Main Entry: | familial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ancestral |
Synonyms: |
domestic, family, genetic, hereditary, inherited |
| Main Entry: | inherent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
Related
Adjectives: |
inherent, bred in the bone, characteristic, congenital, congenite, connate, derived from within, essential, fixed, fundamental, hereditary, immanent, implanted, in the grain, inborn, inbred, incarnate, incurable, indigenous, ineradicable, ingenerate, ingrained, innate, instinctive, internal, intrinsic, intrinsical, invariable, inward, inwrought, longaminous, natural, normal, radical, running in the blood, subjective, thoroughbred, to the manner born, virtual
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