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| Main Entry: |
genetic
 [juh-net-ik] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coming from heredity |
| Synonyms: | abiogenetic, ancestral, digenetic, eugenic, genesiological, genital, hereditary, historical, matriclinous, patrimonial, phytogenetic, sporogenous, xenogenetic |
| Antonyms: | acquired |
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| Main Entry: | inherent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, hereditary |
| Synonyms: | built-in, characteristic, congenital, connate, constitutional, deep-rooted, deep-seated, distinctive, elementary, essential, fixed, fundamental, genetic, immanent, implicit, in the grain, inborn, inbred, inbuilt, indigenous, indispensable, individual, indwelling, ingrained, inherited, innate, inner, instinctive, integral, integrated, internal, intimate, intrinsic, inward, latent, native, natural, original, part and parcel, resident, running in the family, subjective, unalienable |
| Notes: | the word innate means 'inborn' and should apply to living things; inherent is 'essential, intrinsic' and applies best to nonliving things like ideas |
| Antonyms: | acquired, added, external, extrinsic, incidental, learned |
| Main Entry: | inherited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hereditary |
| Synonyms: | congenital, connate, genetic, handed down, in the blood, in the genes, inborn, inbred, innate, passed down, rooted |
Example Sentences
- Californians' genetic testing options are shrinking.
- In each case, the genetic variant increases disease risk indirectly by altering exposure to an environmental risk factor.
- Officials at a railroad company have settled a lawsuit by agreeing to stop the secret genetic testing of their employees.
| Main Entry: | racial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ethnic |
| Synonyms: | ancestral, ethnological, folk, genealogical, genetic, hereditary, lineal, national, phyletic, phylogenetic, tribal |
| Main Entry: | familial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ancestral |
| Synonyms: | domestic, family, genetic, hereditary, inherited |
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| Main Entry: | inherent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
inherent, bred in the bone, characteristic, congenital, congenite, connate, derived from within, essential, fixed, fundamental, hereditary, immanent, implanted, in the grain, inborn, inbred, incarnate, incurable, indigenous, ineradicable, ingenerate, ingrained, innate, instinctive, internal, intrinsic, intrinsical, invariable, inward, inwrought, longaminous, natural, normal, radical, running in the blood, subjective, thoroughbred, to the manner born, virtual
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