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/ænˈsɛs.təɹ.əl/ · adjective
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors..
an ancestral estate
one’s ancestral home
It seems that people with an ancestral history of enduring famines develop a tendency to store more body fat, becoming overfat even when they aren’t overweight.
Some big cheese bein' grought back to his native island to get planted with his ancestrals.
I thought of the strange two-dimensional world these forebearing ancestrals had to live in.
Moreover, the superior ancestrals associated with Plymouth Rock (the Pilgrim Fathers) and Mt. Rushmore (four U.S. presidents) function in the same way as premodern superior ancestrals the world over: as superhuman beings, they preserve and maintain the nation. However, unlike superior ancestrals in pre-modern societies, these ancestors do not evolve out of an actual kin group, and therefore one does not have to be a lineal descendant to approach them.
He considered that the local custom permitted a sister's son to inherit in default of near male ancestrals.
But ancestrals cannot be willed away .
Use ancestral when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ancestral means Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors..
Common synonyms include hereditary, patrimonial, inheritable, heritable.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
an ancestral estate
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