Synonyms for ancestral
ænˈsɛs trəlan·ces·tral

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissibleadjective

   inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

   "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"

   Synonyms:
   familial, genetic, contagious, transmittable, hereditary, catching, patrimonial, inherited, communicable, transmissible, contractable, transmitted

   Antonyms:
   nonheritable, noninheritable

2. ancestraladjective

   of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

   Synonyms:
   hereditary, transmissible, patrimonial

   Antonyms:
   noninheritable, nonheritable

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 3 votes

1. ancestraladjective

   Synonyms:
   hereditary, patrimonial

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. ancestraladjective

   Synonyms:
   patrimonial, hereditary

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "ancestral":

   aboriginal, age-old, ancestor, ancient, traditional, progenitor, salafi, ancestry, salafist

How to pronounce ancestral?

How to say ancestral in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use ancestral in a sentence?

1. Elizabeth II:

   It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

2. Julia Monk:

   Usually, when evolutionary biologists see a trait thats really widespread across evolutionary lineages, we at least consider the idea that the trait is ancestral and was preserved in all those lineages, so why hadnt people considered that hypothesis for SSB ?

3. Anthony Burgess:

   We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

4. Rosy Cole:

   “Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.”-- from Circles and Arcs

5. Blake Flayton:

   If a Jew who is a liberal, who is left wing says,' I'm a Blake Flayton,' they're not given the space to explain all of what that means. That word means is that you support the Jewish right to self-determination in part of Julia Jassey ancestral homeland, not even specifying where the borders are, not even specifying which government they would like to see in charge in Israel, they're not given the space to explain that. They're banished.