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lineal

[lin-ee-uhl] / ˈlɪn i əl /

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ancestral adj.
direct adj.
hereditary adj.
patrimonial adj.
straight adj.

ADJECTIVE

ancestral

Synonyms

STRONGEST

familial tribal

WEAK

affiliated born with congenital consanguine consanguineous genealogical in the family inborn inbred inherited innate maternal old past paternal running in the family totemic

ADJECTIVE

direct

Synonyms

STRONGEST

immediate person-to-person personal

STRONG

prompt succeeding

WEAK

contiguous firsthand head-on next primary proximate resultant

Antonyms

WEAK

changing deviating devious dishonest indirect intermittent interrupted varying wily

ADJECTIVE

hereditary

Synonyms

STRONGEST

genetic inborn transmitted

WEAK

ancestral bequeathed family genealogical handed-down heritable inbred inheritable inherited maternal paternal patrimonial traditional transmissible willed

Antonyms

STRONGEST

acquired

ADJECTIVE

patrimonial

Synonyms

WEAK

affiliated born with congenital consanguine consanguineous familial genealogical hereditary in the family inborn inbred inherited innate maternal old past paternal running in the family

ADJECTIVE

straight

Synonyms

STRONGEST

consecutive nonstop short smooth solid straightforward successive true

STRONG

beeline direct even horizontal invariable level perpendicular plumb right running square upright vertical

WEAK

collinear continuous erect in a line in a row in line inflexible like an arrow linear near precipitous rectilineal rectilinear sheer through unbent unbroken uncurled undeviating undistorted uninterrupted unrelieved unswerving

Antonyms

STRONGEST

broken incontinuous intermittent

STRONG

level uneven varying

WEAK

curved twisted

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The United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, was a lineal descendant of the Marshall Plan and an embodiment of soft power.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2025

Foreman knocked Frazier down six times in two rounds to become the WBA, WBC and lineal heavyweight champion.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2025

He is also now the lineal heavyweight champion by beating Fury, who beat Wladimir Klitschko to earn that distinction in 2015.

From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024

Archival documents they found also mention a wife and child—meaning Voorhees could have unidentified lineal descendants living today who could claim his remains.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 23, 2024

The Voyager spacecraft are the lineal descendants of those sailing-ship voyages of exploration, and of the scientific and speculative tradition of Christiaan Huygens.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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