innate
Meanings
Adjective
- not established by conditioning or learning
Adjective Satellite
- being talented through inherited qualities
- "an innate talent"
- present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development
Adj
- Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.
- Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience.
- Instinctive; coming from instinct.
- Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament.
Verb
- To cause to exist; to call into being.
Origin / Etymology
The adjective is first attested in the 1420's, the verb in 1602; from Middle English innat(e) (“innate, inborn”), borrowed from Latin innātus (“inborn, innate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), perfect active participle of innāscor (“to be born in, grow up in”), from in- (“in, at on”) + nāscor (“to be born”); see natal, native. The verb is derived from the adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Synonyms
born, congenital, congenite, connate, connatural, genetous, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingenite, innate, native, natural, to the manner born, unconditioned, unlearned, unlearnt
Antonyms
acquired, conditioned, implanted, inculcated, infused, ingrafted, learned
Scrabble Score: 6
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