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innateadjective being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thingan innate athletic ability that allowed him to excel at just about any sport he tried his hand at built-in, constitutional, constitutive, essential, hardwired, immanent, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingrain, ingrained(also engrained), inherent, integral, intrinsic, native, natural basic, deep-rooted, elemental, fundamentalcongenital, hereditary, inherited, inmost, inner, interiorinternalcharacteristic, distinctive, peculiarhabitual, inveteratenormal, regular, typical in one's blood adventitious, extraneous, extrinsic alien, foreignaccidental, coincidental, incidentalacquired, adscititioussuperficial, surfaceexterior, external innate, inborn, inbred, congenital, hereditary mean not acquired after birth.innate applies to qualities or characteristics that are part of one's inner essential nature.an innate sense of fair play inborn suggests a quality or tendency either actually present at birth or so marked and deep-seated as to seem so.her inborn love of nature inbred suggests something either acquired from parents by heredity or so deeply rooted and ingrained as to seem acquired in that way.inbred political loyalties congenital and hereditary refer to what is acquired before or at birth, the former to things acquired during fetal development and the latter to things transmitted from one's ancestors.a congenital heart murmur eye color is hereditary in the 15th century |