disinherit | (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disown |
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disinheritance | (noun) the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit | - |
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disinherited | (adjective) deprived of your rightful heritage | - |
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fountainhead | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: well, wellspring |
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(noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: head, headspring |
inhere | (verb) be inherent in something | - |
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inherence | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherency |
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inherency | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherence |
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inherent | (adjective) in the nature of something though not readily apparent | Synonyms: implicit in, underlying |
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(adjective) existing as an essential constituent or characteristic | Synonyms: built-in, constitutional, inbuilt, integral |
inherently | (adverb) in an inherent manner | - |
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inherit | (verb) obtain from someone after their death | - |
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(verb) receive by genetic transmission | - |
(verb) receive from a predecessor | - |
inheritable | (adjective) capable of being inherited | Synonyms: heritable |
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inheritance | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: heritage |
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(noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: heritage |
(noun) (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents | Synonyms: hereditary pattern |
(noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: heritage |
inherited | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, hereditary, transmissible, transmitted |
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inheriting | (adjective) having the legal right to inherit | - |
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inheritor | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heir, heritor |
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inheritress | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: heiress, inheritrix |
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inheritrix | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: heiress, inheritress |
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noninheritable | (adjective) not inheritable | Synonyms: nonheritable |
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pinhead | (noun) the head of a pin | - |
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(noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dumbbell, dummy |
skinhead | (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skin |
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(noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skin |
skinheads | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: bootboys |
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