Hereditary
Hereditary adjective - Genetically passed or capable of being passed from parent to offspring.
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Past and hereditary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Past" instead an adjective "Hereditary".
Nearby Word: heredity
Past
Past adjective - Having been such at some previous time.
Hereditary and past are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hereditary" instead an adjective "Past".
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Black Comedy: To get serial killers and ax crazy murderers past the The Hays Code, it was necessary to frame the story as a whimsical comedy about a theater critic discovering his family's hereditary madness.
Source: Theatre / Arsenic and Old Lace - Similarly, in Niven's Svetz series (about a time-traveling agent who goes into the past to retrieve what he thinks are extinct animals, but turn out to be mythical creatures), the Earth is ruled by the UN, a hereditary monarchy where the Secretary General is an "inbred idiot".
Source: United Nations Is a Superpower -
Hereditary Curse: Lu learns that there is a race known as the Race of the Cursed in Greywalld, who live in the Castle of Bayrone past the River Trocus at the easternmost end of the continent, which no-one can cross.
Source: Literature / Murderess
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