Antonyms of adj noninheritable
1 sense of noninheritable
Sense 1
noninheritable (vs. inheritable), nonheritable -- (not inheritable)
inheritable (vs. noninheritable), heritable -- (capable of being inherited; "inheritable traits such as eye color"; "an inheritable title")
=> ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible -- (inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition")
=> familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissible -- (occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features")
=> monogenic -- (of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes)
=> polygenic -- (of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes)
=> inheriting -- (having the legal right to inherit)
=> nee -- ((meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman; "Hillary Clinton nee Rodham")
Similarity of adj noninheritable
1 sense of noninheritable
Sense 1
noninheritable (vs. inheritable), nonheritable -- (not inheritable)
=> acquired -- (gotten through environmental forces; "acquired characteristics (such as a suntan or a broken nose) cannot be passed on")
=> congenital, inborn, innate -- (present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development)
=> nonhereditary, nontransmissible -- (not acquirable by inheritance)
=> nurtural -- (resulting from nurture)