| Main Entry: | ancestral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | related to previous family or family trait |
Synonyms: |
affiliated, born with, congenital, consanguine, consanguineous, familial, genealogical, in the family, inborn, inbred, inherited, innate, lineal, maternal, old, past, paternal, running in the family, totemic, tribal |
| Main Entry: | direct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | face-to-face; next to |
Synonyms: |
contiguous, firsthand, head-on, immediate, lineal, next, personal, primary, prompt, proximate, resultant, succeeding |
Antonyms: |
indirect |
| 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: | racial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ethnic |
Synonyms: |
ancestral, ethnological, folk, genealogical, genetic, hereditary, lineal, national, phyletic, phylogenetic, tribal |
| Main Entry: | straight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aligned; not curved |
Synonyms: |
beeline, collinear, consecutive, continuous, direct, erect, even, horizontal, in a line, in a row, in line, inflexible, invariable, level, like an arrow, lineal, linear, near, nonstop, perpendicular, plumb, precipitous, rectilineal, rectilinear, right, running, sheer, short, smooth, solid, square, straightforward, successive, through, true, unbent, unbroken, uncurled, undeviating, undistorted, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unswerving, upright, vertical |
Antonyms: |
curved, indirect, twisted |
| Main Entry: | patrimonial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ancestral |
Synonyms: |
affiliated, born with, congenital, consanguine, consanguineous, familial, genealogical, hereditary, in the family, inborn, inbred, inherited, innate, lineal, maternal, old, past, paternal, running in the family, totemic, tribal |
| Main Entry: | straight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
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