Adjective: hereditary
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more hereditary |
| Superlative | most hereditary |
Sample Sentences
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Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
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hereditary rulers
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Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
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Xanthuria is an hereditary disorder in which there is an absence of the enzyme xanthine oxidase which interferes with the metabolic breakdown of purines, leading to an increased excretion of xanthine in the urine and to formation of stones. [1985, Urology, volume 2, page 12:]
Adjectives inflected like hereditary
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English hereditarie, from Latin hērēditārius, from hērēditās (“inheritance”), from hērēs (“heir”). See: Latin Adjectives '
hērēditārius'.