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Definitions for inherited
in·her·it·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissibleadjective

    occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

    "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"

Wiktionary

  1. inheritedadjective

    Obtained via an inheritance

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  1. inherited

    Inherited refers to the transfer or receiving of characteristics, traits, property, rights, or obligations from preceding generations through natural biological processes or legal procedures. This could include physical attributes, health conditions, wealth, or possessions passed down from parents to their offspring or from a predecessor to a successor.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Inherited

    of Inherit

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of inherited in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of inherited in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of inherited in a Sentence

  1. Scott Snyder:

    Dialogue, pressure and deterrence, or military measures -- it's really just a question of how the Trump administration is going to shuffle the deck they inherited.

  2. John Mortimer, The Observer (1999):

    Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.

  3. Norvel Goff:

    We’re trying to create a better world, a better world than the one we inherited.

  4. Oliver Ryder:

    It just hit us in the face. We only confirmed it because of the normal genetic studies we do to prove parentage, our results showed that both eggs possessed the expected male ZZ sex chromosomes, but all markers were only inherited from their dams( mothers), verifying our findings.

  5. Floyd McKissick:

    What Biden inherited was a ship that was adrift at sea that he's had to sail on a corrective course to get things back in place, and I think he's done an excellent job in doing so.

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