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adj. Law Descending from an ancestor to a legal heir; passing down by inheritance.

adj. Law Having title or possession through inheritance.

adj. Transmitted or capable of being transmitted genetically from parent to offspring: a hereditary disease.

adj. Appearing in or characteristic of successive generations.

adj. Derived from or fostered by one's ancestors: a hereditary prejudice.

adj. Ancestral; traditional: their hereditary home. See Synonyms at innate.

adj. Of or relating to heredity or inheritance.

adj. which is passed on as inheritance, by last will or intestate

adj. legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.

adj. holding a legally hereditary title or rank

adj. passed from a parent to offspring in the genes

n. A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

adj. Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance.

adj. Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child.

In law: Descending by inheritance; transmitted or transmissible in the line of descent by force of law; passing to or held by an heir or heirs: as, a hereditary monarchy, office, or estate; hereditary privileges; hereditary bondage.

Holding by inheritance; deriving from ancestors by force of law, as rank, social condition, or property: as, a hereditary peer, proprietor, or bondman.

Pertaining to or resulting from successive generation; transmitted in a line of progeny; passing naturally from parent to offspring: as, hereditary descent; a hereditary line; hereditary features, qualities, or diseases.

Native; patrimonial; ancestral: as, one's hereditary home or occupation; a hereditary opinion or prejudice.

Acting from natal tendency or endowment; having inherited the character or qualifications of; being by force of birth: as, the Bachs were hereditary musicians; the Rothschilds are hereditary financiers.

adj. occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

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

"The term hereditary is applied to diseases such as hemophilia and characteristics such as the tendency toward baldness that pass from parents to children."

heritable    inheritable   

hereditary monarchy    act of the hereditary excise    congenital   

heredity    heiress    inherit    heir    inheritance    heritage   

hereditary peer    hereditary disease    hereditariness    hereditarily   

ancestral    patrimonial    inheritable    heritable    transmissible   

feudal    ecclesiastical    spiritual    innate    legitimate    royal    aristocratic    racial    inherent    universal