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hereditarily

hereditarily adverb: in a hereditary manner.

Adverb

hereditarily (not comparable)

  1. In a hereditary manner.
    • After all, there might be some queer and perhaps hereditarily misshapen outcasts in those shunned hills, even though no such race of star-born monsters as folklore claimed.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness
  2. With regard to inheritance.

hereditarily meaning in Tamil

hereditarily in Tamil

அடியடியாக

Origin of hereditarily

From hereditary + -ly.

Questions about hereditarily

What does hereditarily mean?
Hereditarily means in a hereditary manner.
What is hereditarily in Tamil?
Hereditarily in Tamil is அடியடியாக. See Hereditarily meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hereditarily?
Hereditarily is an adverb.

Words near hereditarily in the dictionary

  1. hereditarianisms
  2. hereditarianist
  3. hereditarianists
  4. hereditarians
  5. hereditaries
  6. hereditarily
  7. hereditariness
  8. hereditarist
  9. hereditarists
  10. hereditary
  11. hereditary elliptocytosis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hereditarily (page history and authors); hereditarily (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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