Adjective: heritable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more heritable |
| Superlative | most heritable |
Sample Sentences
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An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. [1791, Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man:]
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But if we consider that all heritable variations must have their roots in the germ-plasm, and further, that when personal selection does not intervene, ... [1909, Albert Charles Seward, Darwin and Modern Science:]
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Whether they are involved in carcinogenesis by induction of a heritable lesion would depend, I believe, on their ability either to mispair or to misrepair. [1982, Yutaka Kawazoe, “Molecular Mechanism of Chemical Modification of Cellular Nucleic Acid Bases by 4-Hydroxyaminoquinoline 1-oxide”, in Carcinogenic and Mutagenic N-substituted Aryl Compounds, page 185:]
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The colour of a person’s hair is one of the most heritable features of their appearance, with studies on twins suggesting that genetics explains up to 97% of hair colour. [2018 April 16, Ian Sample, The Guardian:]
Adjectives inflected like heritable
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 heritable, from Anglo-Norman heritable; equivalent to herit + -able.