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Definition of inherited

"inherited" in the verb sense

1. inherit

obtain from someone after their death

"I inherited a castle from my French grandparents"

2. inherit

receive from a predecessor

"The new chairman inherited many problems from the previous chair"

3. inherit

receive by genetic transmission

"I inherited my good eyesight from my mother"

"inherited" in the adjective sense

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

occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

"an inherited disease"

"familial traits"

"genetically transmitted features"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for inherited

He flourishes with inherited honours. [ Motto ]

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear. [ George Eliot ]

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

Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions - these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term experience. [ G. H. Lewes ]

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inherited in Scrabble®

The word inherited is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters inherited:

INHERITED
(126)
INHERITED
(126)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (7 words)

diether, dietine, inditer, inherit, neither, nitride, therein

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word inherited

INHERITED
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In inherited

INHERITED
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INHERITED
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inherited in Words With Friends™

The word inherited is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters inherited:

INHERITED
(153)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (7 words)

diether, dietine, inditer, inherit, neither, nitride, therein

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word inherited

INHERITED
(153)
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INHERITED
(153)
INHERITED
(90)
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(90)
INHERIT
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NEITHER
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Words containing the sequence inherited

Words that start with inherited (1 word)

inherited

Words with inherited in them (1 word)

inherited

Words that end with inherited (4 words)

disinheritedinheritednoninheriteduninherited
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Word Growth involving inherited

Shorter words in inherited

he her inherit

in inherit

it inherit

it rite rited

Longer words containing inherited

disinherited

noninherited

uninherited