adj
Meaning 1
Obtained via an inheritance
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- inherited money
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
inherited
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɪnˈhɛɹɪtɪd/
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CMU ARPABET: IH2 N HH EH1 R AH0 T IH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
hereditary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- an inherited disease
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
simple past and past participle of inherit
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an inherited disease
- familial traits
- genetically transmitted features
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: familial, genetic, hereditary, transmitted, transmissible
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: zděděný — obtained via an inheritance
- Czech: poděděný — obtained via an inheritance
- Dutch: geërfd — obtained via an inheritance
- Esperanto: heredita — obtained via an inheritance
- Finnish: peritty — obtained via an inheritance
- Finnish: perintö- — obtained via an inheritance
- Galician: herdado — obtained via an inheritance
- German: übernommen — obtained via an inheritance
- Dutch: erfelijk — inherited diseases etc.
- Finnish: perinnöllinen — inherited diseases etc.
- German: geerbt — inherited diseases etc.
- Norwegian Bokmål: arvelig — inherited diseases etc.
Real reading context