Antonyms for hereditary
həˈrɛd ɪˌtɛr ihered·i·ta·ry

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1. hereditary

   Antonyms:
   conferred, acquired, won

   Synonyms:
   inherited, ancestral, lineal

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1. familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissibleadjective

   occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

   "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"

   Antonyms:
   noninheritable, nonheritable

   Synonyms:
   familial, genic, genetic, contagious, transmittable, ancestral, genetical, patrimonial, inherited, communicable, transmissible, contractable, transmitted, catching

2. 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:
   noninheritable, nonheritable

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

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1. hereditaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   ancestral, patrimonial, inheritable, inherited

How to use hereditary in a sentence?

1. Joseph Fischer:

   Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.

2. Woody Allen:

   I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

3. Robert Wright:

   Think of it: zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another : 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity.

4. Ekujumi Olarenwaju:

   Thus far scientifically, no one can say this is the reason, one of the plausible reasons is the hereditary aspect of it because maybe over the years they inter-marry, they now have that gene being pooled and concentrated in that environment.

5. Francis Collins:

   What this study says quite definitively for diabetes is the vast majority of hereditary risk variants are in fact these common ones, and the rare ones, while they pop up here and there, are a much smaller contribution.

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