Definition for Lineal:

• In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude.

Synonyms for Lineal:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • lineal.
  •ancestral (adjective)
  • consanguine,
  • innate,
  • paternal,
  • inbred,
  • inborn,
  • inherited,
  • affiliated,
  • maternal,
  • past,
  • congenital,
  • consanguineous,
  • old.
  •direct (adjective)
  • head-on,
  • prompt,
  • head on,
  • personal,
  • next,
  • primary,
  • contiguous,
  • proximate,
  • succeeding,
  • firsthand,
  • immediate,
  • resultant.
  •ethnic (adjective)
  • racial.
  •hereditary (adjective)
  • inheritable,
  • transmitted,
  • handed down,
  • Willed,
  • traditional,
  • Bequeathed,
  • genetic.
  •racial (adjective)
  • folk,
  • ethnological,
  • phylogenetic,
  • Folker,
  • phyletic,
  • national.
  •straight (adjective)
  • in line,
  • undeviating,
  • uninterrupted,
  • erect,
  • invariable,
  • unrelieved,
  • running,
  • short,
  • precipitous,
  • sheer,
  • plumb,
  • even,
  • vertical,
  • solid,
  • consecutive,
  • rectilineal,
  • unswerving,
  • successive,
  • through,
  • undistorted,
  • level,
  • perpendicular,
  • like an arrow,
  • in a line,
  • non-stop,
  • unbent,
  • rectilinear,
  • right,
  • true,
  • nonstop,
  • square,
  • uncurled,
  • horizontal,
  • inflexible,
  • linear,
  • collinear,
  • continuous,
  • near,
  • unbroken,
  • upright,
  • smooth,
  • in a row,
  • beeline,
  • straightforward.
  •structural (adjective)
  • architectural.

• n.

  •
  • filial,
  • kinship,
  • familial,
  • marking,
  • illegitimate,
  • illegitimacy,
  • legitimate,
  • close,
  • Family,
  • distant.
  •
  • continue.
  •hereditary (noun)
  • inherent.
  •patrilineal (noun)
  • patrilineal.
  •patrilinear (noun)
  • patrilinear.
  •unilateral (noun)
  • unilateral.
  •unilateralist (noun)
  • unilateralist.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • clannish.

Paraphrases for Lineal:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    line.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    linear.

Antonyms for Lineal:

• adj.

  • all
    collateral.
  • direct
    devious, dishonest, interrupted, wily, Deviating, intermittent, indirect, varying, changing.
  • hereditary
    acquired.
  • straight
    deceitful, prone, twisted, curved, disorderly, level, mixed, corrupt, unfair, diluted, disordered, untrustworthy, broken, different, uneven, unjust, untraditional, horizontal, unconventional, incontinuous, disorganized.
  • Other antonyms:
    cubic, two-dimensional, planar, three-dimensional.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    many-sided, multilateral, nonlinear.

Lineal Sentence Examples:

• All the other three were temporary Guardsmen; that I knew; but to me they seemed the lineal descendants of the bear - skinned and whiskered heroes in old volumes of Punch.

• Proceeding to France, he was touched at Avignon by the eldest lineal descendant of a race of kings, who had, for a long succession of ages, healed by exercising the royal prerogative.

Homophones for Lineal:

• linalool, lamella, luminal, lunula, lienal, lunule, lemon lily, lonely, lemon oil, lemon yellow, laminal.