Connatural

  

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Connatural

Definition: Connatural

Connatural

Adjective

1. Similar in nature; "and mix with our connatural dust"- John Milton.

2. Normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of the good".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "connatural" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

Note: Connatural \Con*nat"u*ral\, adjective. [Prefix con- natural.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Connatural

Synonyms: inborn (adj), inbred (adj), native (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Connatural

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Similarity

Connatural, congener, allied to; akin to; (consanguineous).

Uniformity

Adjective: uniform; homogeneous, homologous;of a piece, consistent, connatural; monotonous, even, invariable; regular, unchanged, undeviating, unvaried, unvarying.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Connatural

English words defined with "connatural": inborn, inbrednative. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Connatural" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Spanish (connatural).

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Commercial Usage: Connatural

DomainTitle

Books

  • Revolution for Nature: From the Environment to the Connatural World (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Connatural

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

connatural

23
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Connatural

Language Translations for "connatural"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

që ka vetiu (connate), që ka prej natyre (connate). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

вроден (congenital, connate, elemental, glandular, inborn, inbred, indigenous, inherent, innate, native, natural, radical, temperamental, unconditioned, untaught, untutored), подобен (agnate, akin, alike, allied to, analogous, bastard, comparable, ditto, homo-, homoeo-, kindred, like, parallel, similar, sister, such, suchlike). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vrozený (congenital, connate, inborn, inbred, inherent, innate, native). (various references)

   

German

  

verwandt (affined, akin, allied, cognate, cognitional, interrelated, kindred, related). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

természetével járó. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onnaturalcay

   

Portuguese

  

congênito (congenital, connate), conatural. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

având aceeaşi naturã, înnãscut (born, connate, inborn, inbred, inherent, innate, native, original). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

однородный (congeneric, congenerical, congenerous, homogeneous, indiscrete, intimate, uniform). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

urođen (congenital, connate, inborn, inbred, innate, native, natural), sličan (alike, analogous, like, similar), istovrstan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

connatural. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

medfödd (congenital, connate, constitutional, inate, inborn, inbred, indigenous, inherent, innate, native, untaught). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tabiatı aynı olan, doğuştan olan (connate, given, inherent, innate, unconditioned, untaught), doğasında olan (inherent), doğal (artless, easy, free, inartificial, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingenuous, inherent, innate, native, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

уроджений, однорідний (homogeneous, kindred, pure, self, smooth), однаковий (alike, equal, even, identic, identical, level, like, one), природний (artless, careless, elemental, inbred, indigenous, matter of course, native, natural, physic, radical, unartful, unlabored, unlaboured, untaught, untutored). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Connatural

Derivations

Words beginning with "connatural": connaturalities, connaturality, connaturally. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Connatural" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: connatura. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Connatural"

Words rhyming with "connatural" (pronounced 'Con*nat"u*ral'): Aboral, Accipitral, Adambulacral, Admiral, Ambidextral, Ambulacral, Ammiral, Amphitheatral, Amphoral, Ancestral, Antambulacral, Antemural, Antral, Arbitral, Asymmetral, Augural, Auroral, Bicorporal, Bicrural, Bimembral, Binaural, Biventral, Cadastral, Caesural, Caporal, Central, Centumviral, Cesural, Chaparral, Circumlittoral, Cloistral, Commissural, Concho-spiral, Conirostral, Contranatural, Counternatural, Crural, Cubo-octahedral, Cultirostral, Curvirostral, Cynosural, Decahedral, Decemviral, Dextral, Dural, Duumviral, Fissirostral, Flexural, Floral, Genitocrural. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Connatural

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-n-n-o-r-t-u"

-1 letter: nocturnal.

-2 letters: calutron, cannular, cantonal.

-3 letters: anconal, annular, cannula, cornual, courant, courlan, lacunar, natural, nocturn.

-4 letters: actual, annual, antral, anural, anuran, aortal, atonal, cannot, canola, canton, cantor, canula, carnal, carton, catalo, contra, cornua, craton, curtal, lacuna, natron, nonart, nounal, ocular, outran, ranula, tarnal, torula, toucan, turaco, turnon, untorn.

-5 letters: acorn, actor, alant, altar, ancon, annal.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-n-n-o-r-t-u"
 

+2 letters: connaturally, contrapuntal.

 

+3 letters: connaturality, nomenclatural.

 

+4 letters: cantankerously, congratulating, congratulation, contrapuntally, counterbalance, noncontractual, nonspectacular, transductional, unromantically.

 

+5 letters: configurational, congratulations, connaturalities, counterbalanced, counterbalances, neuroanatomical, nonagricultural, nonmatriculated, pronunciational.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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