Antonyms for ancestral
ænˈsɛs trəlan·ces·tral

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1. ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissibleadjective

   inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

   "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"

   Antonyms:
   nonheritable, noninheritable

   Synonyms:
   familial, genetic, contagious, transmittable, hereditary, catching, patrimonial, inherited, communicable, transmissible, contractable, transmitted

2. ancestraladjective

   of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

   Antonyms:
   noninheritable, nonheritable

   Synonyms:
   hereditary, transmissible, patrimonial

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1. ancestraladjective

   Synonyms:
   patrimonial, hereditary

How to use ancestral in a sentence?

1. Jasmina Wiemann:

   With our new evidence for an avian-level metabolism ancestral to all dinosaurs and pterosaurs, all hot-blooded dinosaurs likely had high body temperatures, comparable to those of modern birds.

2. Ken Workman:

   We as a people have been living and dying here out in the Seattle area for thousands and thousands of years, all of our ancestral bones, all that time, are in this land : the seven hills of Seattle.

3. Steve Brusatte:

   The ancestors of T. rex would have looked a whole lot like Timurlengia, a horse-sized hunter with a big brain and keen hearing that would put us to shame, only after these ancestral tyrannosaurs evolved their clever brains and sharp senses did they grow into the colossal sizes of T. rex. Tyrannosaurs had to get smart before they got big.

4. Roberto Mukaro Borrero:

   I have a real problem when those people preferring to affirm an African or even a Spanish side to their history say that I can't affirm who I am as an indigenous person, as though everybody else is entitled to be who they are on our ancestral homeland, except us.

5. Colleen Hanabusa:

   When Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke chose to address me in Japanese( when no one else was greeted in their ancestral language), I understood ‘ this is precisely why Japanese Americans were treated as they were more than 75 years ago.

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