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Synonyms for ancestral
ænˈsɛs trəlan·ces·tral

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  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 Synonymes3.0 / 3 votes

  1. ancestraladjective

    Synonyms:
    hereditary, patrimonial

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words2.0 / 1 vote

  1. ancestraladjective

    Synonyms:
    patrimonial, hereditary

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#4344genetic
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#22771ancestral
#23757hereditary
#24384familial
#26169contagious
#28206communicable
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#238022transmittable
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How to use ancestral in a sentence?

  1. Ayanna Pressley:

    For those that continue to feign great surprise about what happened on January 6. As a Black woman, to be barricaded in my office, using office furniture and water bottles on the ground in the dark that terror, those moments of terror, is familiar in a deep and ancestral way for me, i want us to do everything to ensure that a breach like this never occurs at the Capitol, but I want us to address the evil and scourge that is White supremacy in this nation. This is not only about securing the Capitol to ensure that members and our staffs and custodial staff and food service workers are safe in the Capitol. It is that we are safe in America.

  2. Roberto Mukaro Borrero:

    I have a real problem when those people preferring to affirm an African or even a Spanish side to their history say that I can't affirm who I am as an indigenous person, as though everybody else is entitled to be who they are on our ancestral homeland, except us.

  3. Adam Brumm:

    The images of therianthropes may also represent the earliest evidence for our capacity to conceive of things that do not exist in the natural world, a basic concept that underpins modern religion, therianthropes occur in the folklore or narrative fiction of almost every modern society, and they are perceived as gods, spirits or ancestral beings in many religions worldwide.

  4. Auma Obama:

    Given that his own mission under Obama Foundation is to inspire and empower people to change the world, his attendance at this event at our ancestral home, where our father was laid to rest, is of great significance to me.

  5. Auma Obama:

    Given that his own mission under the Obama Foundation is to inspire and empower people to change the world, his attendance at this event at our ancestral home, where our father was laid to rest, is of great significance to me.


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