English-Thai Dictionary

hereditary

ADJ ซึ่ง เป็น กรรมพันธุ์  วึ่ง ส่งผ่าน ทาง พันธุกรรม  atavistic inherited sueng-pen-kam-ma-pan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HEREDITARY

a. 1. That has descended from an ancestor. He is in possession of a large hereditary estate.
2. That may descend from an ancestor to an heir; descendible to an heir at law. The crown of Great Britain is hereditary.
3. That is or may be transmitted from a parent to a child; as hereditary pride; hereditary bravery; hereditary disease.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HEREDITARY

He *red "i *ta *ry, a. Etym: [L. hereditarius, fr. hereditas heirship, inheritance, fr. heres heir: cf. F. héréditaire. See Heir. ]

 

1. Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.

 

2. Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.

 

Syn. -- Ancestral; patrimonial; inheritable.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

hereditary

he red i tar y |həˈrediˌterē həˈrɛdəˌtɛri | ▶adjective (of a title, office, or right ) conferred by or based on inheritance: members of the ancient Polish aristocracy who had hereditary right to elect the king. • [ attrib. ] (of a person ) holding a position by inheritance: I am the hereditary chief of the Piscataway people. • (of a characteristic or disease ) determined by genetic factors and therefore able to be passed on from parents to their offspring or descendants: cystic fibrosis is our most common fatal hereditary disease. • of or relating to inheritance: a form of hereditary succession and dynastic rule became standard practice. • Mathematics (of a set ) defined such that every element that has a given relation to a member of the set is also a member of the set. DERIVATIVES he red i tar i ly |həˌrediˈte (ə )rəlē |adverb, he red i tar i ness |həˌrediˈte (ə )rēnis |noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin hereditarius, from hereditas (see heredity ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

hereditary

hereditary |hɪˈrɛdɪt (ə )ri | ▶adjective 1 (of a title, office, or right ) conferred by or based on inheritance: the Queen's hereditary right to the throne. • [ attrib. ] (of a person ) holding a position by inheritance: a hereditary peer. • (of a characteristic or disease ) determined by genetic factors and therefore able to be passed on from parents to their offspring or descendants. • relating to inheritance. 2 Mathematics (of a set ) defined such that every element which has a given relation to a member of the set is also a member of the set. DERIVATIVES hereditarily adverb, hereditariness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin hereditarius, from hereditas (see heredity ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

hereditary

hereditary adjective 1 a hereditary right: inherited; bequeathed, willed, handed-down, passed-down, passed-on, transferred; ancestral, family, familial. 2 a hereditary disease: genetic, congenital, inborn, inherited, inbred, innate; in the family, in the blood, in the genes.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

hereditary

hereditary adjective 1 in the past, the aristocracy had a hereditary right to elect the king: inherited, obtained by inheritance; bequeathed, willed, handed-down, passed-down, passed-on, transferred, transmitted; ancestral, family, familial; rare lineal. 2 cystic fibrosis is our most common fatal hereditary disease: genetic, genetical, congenital, inborn, inherent, inherited, inbred, innate, in the family, in the blood, in the genes.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

hereditary

he red i tar y /hərédətèri |-t (ə )ri /形容詞 比較なし 1 遺伝的, 遺伝 (性 )の ▸ a hereditary disease 遺伝性の病気 2 ｟英 ｠(称号などが )世襲の, 親譲りの, 代々の .3 〘法 〙(称号などを )相続する権利を保有する ▸ ｟英 ｠hereditary peer 世襲貴族