What is "lineal" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does lineal mean in English? Meaning of lineal definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "lineal" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "lineal": in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child

Adjective

  • Meaning: in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
  • Example: lineal ancestors lineal heirs a direct descendant of the king direct heredity
  • Synonyms: direct lineal
  • Antonyms: collateral indirect
  • Similar: matrilineal matrilinear patrilineal patrilinear unilateral
  • Also see: related
  • Meaning of "lineal": arranged in a line

    Adjective

  • Meaning: arranged in a line
  • Synonyms: lineal
  • Similar: linear one-dimensional
  • Adjective: (family) Of a family relationship that includes mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, daughters, and sons, etc. as opposed to collateral. John Locke the prime and ancient right of lineal successionJohn Locke the prime and ancient right of lineal successionInheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to). Dryden for only you are lineal to the throneDryden for only you are lineal to the throneComposed of lines; delineated. lineal designsIn the direction of a line; of a line; of or relating to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear. lineal magnitude
  • Synonyms:

    familial, affiliated, congenital, inborn, inbred, inherited, innate, maternal, old, past, paternal, consanguine, consanguineous, tribal, born with, genealogical, in the family, running in the family, totemic, personal, immediate, prompt, contiguous, firsthand, next, primary, proximate, resultant, succeeding, head-on, genetic, inborn, ancestral, family, inbred, inherited, maternal, paternal, traditional, patrimonial, transmitted, bequeathed, genealogical, handed down, heritable, inheritable, transmissible, willed, genetic, national, ancestral, folk, hereditary, tribal, ethnological, genealogical, phyletic, phylogenetic, short, straightforward, solid, smooth, successive, consecutive, nonstop, even, right, vertical, level, invariable, plumb, perpendicular, direct, running, square, beeline, upright, horizontal, continuous, erect, inflexible, near, precipitous, sheer, through, unbroken, uninterrupted, unswerving, unrelieved, true, collinear, in a line, in a row, in line, like an arrow, linear, rectilineal, rectilinear, unbent, uncurled, undeviating, undistorted, affiliated, congenital, consanguine, consanguineous, familial, hereditary, inborn, inbred, inherited, innate, maternal, old, past, paternal, born with, genealogical, in the family, running in the family, totemic, tribal,

    Antonyms:

    dishonest, indirect, wily, changing, deviating, intermittent, interrupted, varying, devious, acquired, deceitful, dishonest, indirect, intermittent, untrustworthy, uneven, unfair, horizontal, changing, varying, level, curved, unjust, disordered, disorganized, diluted, mixed, unconventional, broken, prone, twisted, corrupt, disorderly, different, untraditional, incontinuous,

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