Synonyms for descendant
- noun
- adjective
- American English
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Derivative — A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language
Other
Adjective
Definitions
- n. 1
A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- n. 2
One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
a lineal descendant of Charlemagne
- adj. 1
Descending; going down.
The elevator resumed its descendant trajectory.
Related words
- Phrases
- direct descendant
- Is a kind of
- successor
- Other spellings
- descendent UK
Forms
- Plural
- descendants → derivatives, reflexes, scions, lineages…
Example sentences
- offspring They attempt to instill French in their offspring.
- scion Tom is the scion of a very wealthy family.
- formative His formative years were very unhappy.
By length
- 4 letters
- seed1
- 5 letters
- child1, issue2, scion2
- 6 letters
- family3, reflex2
- 7 letters
- lineage3, progeny3
- 9 letters
- offspring2, formative3, posterity4, afterbear
- 10 letters
- derivative4, descending3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (issue2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- descendant
- Italiano
- discendente
- Español
- descendiente
- Deutsch
- Abkomme
- Català
- successor