Innate
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English
Adjective
Innate (not comparable)
- Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.
- Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See a priori, intuitive.
- Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
Notes
- Nouns often used with "innate": knowledge, idea, immunity, etc.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:innate
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Verb
Innate (third-person singular simple present innates, present participle innating, simple past and past participle innated)
- To cause to exist; to call into being.
Thesaurus
atavistic, automatic, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, deep-seated, elemental, essential, genetic, genic, hereditary, impulsive, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, ingrained, inherent, inherited, instinctive, instinctual, intrinsic, involuntary, libidinal, matroclinous, native, native to, natural, natural to, normal, organic, patrimonial, patroclinous, physical, primal, regular, spontaneous, standard, subliminal, temperamental, typical, unacquired, unconscious, unlearned
Etymology
From Latin innātus (“inborn”), perfect active participle of innāscor (“be born in, grow up in”) < in (“in, at on”) + nāscor (“be born”); see natal, native.
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References
- Innate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Innate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams
Italian
Adjective
innate pl.
- feminine form of innato
Latin
Participle
innāte
- vocative masculine singular of innātus
