- familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissible - tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"
Antonyms: noninheritable, nonheritable (indirect, via inheritable)
- inherit, come into - obtain from someone after their death; "I inherited a castle from my French grandparents"
--1 is one way to get, acquire
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun inheritor1, noun inheritance1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
- inherit - receive from a predecessor; "The new chairman inherited many problems from the previous chair"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- inherit - receive by genetic transmission; "I inherited my good eyesight from my mother"
--3 is one way to receive, have
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun inheritance3
Somebody ----s something
- inherit - receive by genetic transmission; "I inherited my good eyesight from my mother"