disinherited

1. 1.

   deprived of your rightful heritage

   Similarunloved

Questions about disinherited

What does disinherited mean?

disinherited means "deprived of your rightful heritage".

How many syllables are in disinherited?

disinherited has 5 syllables and divides as di-sin-he-ri-ted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is disinherited a common word?

disinherited is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.