Synonyms for inherited
in·her·it·ed

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

   occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

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

   Synonyms:
   familial, genic, genetic, contagious, transmittable, ancestral, hereditary, genetical, patrimonial, communicable, transmissible, contractable, transmitted, catching

   Antonyms:
   nonheritable, noninheritable

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1. List of paraphrases for "inherited":

   legacy, hereditary, heritable, succession

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1. Jeff Sonnenfeld:

   It was really hard for John Flannery to escape the bad hand John Flannery inherited.

2. Defense Secretary James Mattis:

   This is a policy I inherited, and so far the cadre is so small we have no data on it. We're hoping to get data soon.

3. Donald Trump:

   We know many of the same people in NY. Behind your back they laugh at you call you a carnival barking clown, they know you inherited a fortune squandered it with stupid deals and incompetence.

4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

   Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

5. Henry van Dyke:

   Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.