Synonyms of the word familial


FAMILIALCLAN - GENETIC - HEREDITARY - HERITABLE - INHERITABLE - INHERITED - KIN - KINDRED - TRANSMISSIBLE - TRANSMITTED - TRIBE

familial

  • adj. Of or pertaining to human family.
  • adj. (pathology) inherited.
  • adj. (technical) Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family.

clan

  • n. (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.
  • n. A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.
  • n. Any association of people behaving clannishly, including one's immediate family.
  • n. (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
  • n. A badger colony.

genetic

  • adj. (genetics) Relating to genetics or genes.
  • adj. Caused by genes.
  • adj. Of or relating to origin (genesis).
  • adj. (linguistics) Based on shared membership in a linguistic family.
  • adj. (theology) Based on a shared membership in a religious family.

hereditary

  • adj. Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
  • adj. Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
  • adj. Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
  • adj. Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes.
  • adj. (mathematics) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
  • n. A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

heritable

  • adj. able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children.

inheritable

  • adj. That can be inherited.
  • adj. Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir.

inherited

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of inherit.
  • adj. Obtained via an inheritance.
  • adj. hereditary.

kin

  • n. Race; family; breed; kind.
  • n. (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
  • n. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
  • n. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
  • n. Kind; sort; manner; way.
  • adj. Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
  • n. A primitive Chinese musical instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
  • n. Alternative form of k'in.
  • v. Pronunciation spelling of can.

kindred

  • n. (often plural only) Distant and close relatives, collectively; kin.
  • n. (often plural only) People of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren.
  • n. (countable) A grouping of relatives.
  • n. A combination of extended family and religious group, of the Ásatrú religious order in America.
  • adj. Of the same nature.

transmissible

  • adj. able to be transmitted.
  • adj. (medicine) capable of being transmitted from one person to another; contagious.

transmitted

  • adj. (sometimes in combination) That has been transmitted (in a specified manner).
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of transmit.

tribe

  • n. A socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people.
  • n. (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
  • n. The collective noun for various animals.
  • n. (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
  • n. (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female…
  • v. (transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.

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