Definitions for hereditary

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hereditary he·red·i·tar·y

Spelling: [huh-red-i-ter-ee]

IPA: /həˈrɛd ɪˌtɛr i/

Hereditary is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 442 anagrams from letters in hereditary (adeehirrty).

Definitions for hereditary

adjective

1. passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Compare congenital.
2. of or relating to inheritance or heredity:
3. existing by reason of feeling, opinions, or prejudices held by predecessors:
4. Law. descending by inheritance. transmitted or transmissible in the line of descent by force of law. holding title, rights, etc., by inheritance:
5. Mathematics. (of a collection of sets) signifying that each subset of a set in the collection is itself a set in the collection. of or relating to a mathematical property, as containing a greatest integer, applicable to every subset of a set that has the property.

Origin of hereditary

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin hērēditārius relating to inheritance, equivalent to hērēdit(ās) inheritance, heredity + -ārius -ary

Examples for hereditary

Weary as Kate may be of the unrelenting focus on her womb, the fuss is entirely predictable in a hereditary monarchy.

This often acts even in cases where alcohol has aroused a hereditary taint.

I would be born to no hereditary prejudices, no hereditary passions.

I repeat to you that all hereditary cases are to be found there.

There are three types of CJD, including a hereditary version of the disease which accounts for roughly 10 percent of all cases.

That surely was the sentiment of more than a few of the hereditary distillers in bourbon country.

This son has begun thrumming the strings of hereditary determinism, and is finding them holding taut.

After 33 years of working in a factory, Nowlin had developed a hereditary eye disease called Retinitis pigmentosa.

(your race shall be banished from its hereditary abode), 2886; acc.

But his love for the hereditary soil was not as simple as that of his companions.