Inborn

Definitions: Inborn

Inborn

Adjective

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

2. Present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development.

Date "inborn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Inborn

Synonyms: congenital (adj), connatural (adj), inbred (adj), inherent (adj), innate (adj), native (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Affections	Inborn, inbred, ingrained; deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate; pathoscopic; congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain.
Intrinsicality	Adjective: derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate, ingenite; indigenous; in the grain; Noun: bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal; to the manner born; virtual.
Necessity	Noun: involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Garrod's Inborn Factors in Disease: Including an Annotated Facsimile Reprint of the Inborn Factors of Disease by Archibald E. Garrod (reference) Inborn errors of metabolism; report of a symposium on the relation between developmental biochemistry and inborn errors of metabolism (reference) Inborn Errors of Specific Immunity: Proceedings of a Symposium on Inborn Errors of Specific Immunity, Held in Albany, New York, October 16-18, 1978 (reference) Inborn Justice : A Daughter's Courage, a Mother's Heart (reference) Inborn Metabolic Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		It has been learned that several inborn errors of metabolism mimic RS in that the first manifestation of these errors may be an encephalopathy with liver dysfunction. (references)
		Blood collected from heel puncture and dried on filter paper has been the most common method of sample collection for newborn screening programs for inborn errors of metabolism (phenylketonuria, etc.). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George W. Bush	2001-2005	Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Inborn" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inborn" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	65	41,645

Expressions using "inborn": congenital inborn innate ♦ inborn error of metabolism ♦ inborn reflex. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "inborn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i vendit (domestic, home, native), i natyrshëm (artless, inartificial, inbred, matter of course, native, natural, unstudied), i lindur (born, congenital, inbred, innate, native, natural, nee), prej vetiu (native, per se). (various references)

Arabic		‏فطري (congenital, connate, fungoid, fungous, fungus, habitual, inbred, indigenous, inherent, innate, native, natural, primitive, radical), ‏وراثي (genetic, genetical, hereditary), ‏طبيعي (homely, inbred, indigenous, natural, naturalist, naturalistic, normal, physical, primitive, spontaneous, straight, temperamental, unaffected). (various references)

Bulgarian		вроден (congenital, connate, connatural, elemental, glandular, inbred, indigenous, inherent, innate, native, natural, radical, temperamental, unconditioned, untaught, untutored). (various references)

Chinese		天性 . (various references)

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

Danish		medfødt stofskiftesygdom (inborn metabolic disease). (various references)

Dutch		ingeboren (congenital, inbred, innate, native), aangeboren (congenital, congentital, connatal, connate, constitutional, inbred, innate, native). (various references)

Esperanto		kunnaskita (congentital, inbred, innate, native), denaska (congenital, inbred, innate, native). (various references)

Farsi		فطری (Indigenous, Ingrown, Innate, Natural, Ocular), موروثی (Congenital), نهادی (Characteristic, Natural), ذاتی (Autochthonous, Congenital, Connate, Indigenous, Inherent, Innate, Intrinsic, Intuitive, Inward, Natural, Substantial), درون زاد (Innate). (various references)

Finnish		synnynnäinen (congenital, inbred, inherent, innate). (various references)

French		naturel (inartificial, inbred, innate), inné (inbred, innate). (various references)

Frisian		oanberne (congenital, inbred, innate, native). (various references)

German		angeboren (congenital, congenitally, congentital, connate, inbred, inbuilt, inherent, inherently, innate, native, temperamentally, untaught). (various references)

Greek		έμφυτοσ (immanent, inbred, inherent, innate, instinctive, native, natural). (various references)

Hebrew		מל�"�" (born, congenital, innate), שמל�"�" (congenital, inbred). (various references)

Hungarian		természetadta (inbred, indwelling). (various references)

Indonesian		pembawaan lahir (innate). (various references)

Italian		innato (inbred, inherent, innate, native, natural). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		本然 (disposition, inherent, innate, natural, nature), 先天的 (a priori, congenital, hereditary, inherent, innate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほ�"ぜ�" (Amida Buddha's original vow, disposition, inherent, innate, long-cherished desire, natural, nature, regular dinner, suddenly), ほ�"ね�" (disposition, inherent, innate, natural, nature, thisyear), せ�"て�"てき (a priori, congenital, hereditary, inherent, innate). (various references)

Manx		dooie (complement, endemic, full-blooded, good-natured, inherent, kind, natural, patriotic, species, true-born, vernacular), dooghyssagh (ancestral, congenital, heritable, idiomatic, inherent, instinctive, native, natural, unforced, vernacular). (various references)

Norwegian		medfødt (inherent, innate). (various references)

Pig Latin		inbornay

Polish		od urodzenia (congenital, inbred, innate, native). (various references)

Portuguese		interior (bowels, country, depth, doggerel, doggery, indoor, indwelling, inland, inner, inside, inside diameter, interior, interior decoration, internal, inwardly, up country), inato (born, congenital, connate, inbred, innate), congênito (congenital, connate, connatural, innate). (various references)

Romanian		nativ (nascent, native), ereditar (hereditary, inheritable, innate, lineal, patrimonial), congenital (congenital, innate), înnãscut (born, connate, connatural, inbred, inherent, innate, native, original). (various references)

Russian		врожденный (bred in the bone, congenital, connate, connatural, inbred, inbuilt, ingrain, ingrained, ingrown, innate, native, untaught, untutored), прирожденный (born, congenital, from the cradle, native, true born). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		urođen (congenital, connate, connatural, inbred, innate, native, natural). (various references)

Spanish		innato (congenital, congentital, endogenous, inbred, innate, native). (various references)

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

Thai		โ�"ยกำเนิ�" (innate, innately, native-born, natively). (various references)

Turkish		doğuştan (congenital, congenitally, inbred, inherently, innate, native, natural, naturally, trueborn), doğal (artless, connatural, easy, free, inartificial, inbred, indigenous, ingenuous, inherent, innate, native, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied). (various references)

Ukranian		аборигенний (native, native born), природжений (born, congenial, congenital, connate, habitual, inbred, ingrain, ingrained, ingrown, inherent, innate, native, natural, organic, original, true born, unschooled). (various references)

Vietnamese		bẩm sinh (congenital, innate, natively, unacquired). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "inborn": twinborn. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Inborn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ednbro, Enbourne, ibon, inbord, ingor, Intorno, Nibari, Sigbjorn. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "inborn" (pronounced i"nbô'rn)
4	-b ô' r n	airborne, firstborn, seaborne, waterborne.
3	-ô' r n	bighorn, Buckthorn, bullhorn, Hartshorn, hawthorn, Longhorn, popcorn, pronghorn, shoehorn, shopworn, unicorn.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-i-n-n-o-r"
	-1 letter: robin.
	-2 letters: born, brin, brio, inro, iron, noir, nori.
	-3 letters: bin, bio, bro, inn, ion, nib, nob, nor, obi, orb, rib, rin, rob.
	-4 letters: bi, bo, in, no, on, or.
	Words containing the letters "b-i-n-n-o-r"
	+1 letter: bonnier.
	+2 letters: aborning, bronzing, browning, enrobing, ringbone, twinborn, unrobing.
	+3 letters: bringdown, bronzings, carbanion, ironbound, nonbinary, ribboning, ringbones, suborning.
	+4 letters: antibaryon, begroaning, bethorning, boringness, bringdowns, broadening, burgeoning, carbanions, embrowning, fibrinogen, imbrowning, nonbearing, nonlibrary, outburning, rebounding.
	+5 letters: antibaryons, bankrolling, bioengineer, bourgeoning, bourguignon, boutonniere, brominating, bromination, brownnosing, carbonating, carbonation, carbonizing, conscribing, conurbation, cybernation, fibrinogens, fibronectin, herringbone, hibernation, hornblendic, inebriation, inobservant, interrobang, lingonberry, neighboring, nonabrasive, nonbeliever, nonbreeding, overburning, panbroiling, pawnbroking, rebuttoning, recombinant, recombining, reobtaining, subornation, tenebrionid, unignorable.
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