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Definition: Innate |
InnateAdjective1. Not established by conditioning or learning; "an unconditioned reflex". 2. Being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent". 3. Present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "innate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Innate \In"nate\, adjective. [Latin innatus; pref. in- in + natus born, past participle of nasci to be born. See Native.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we are born with, having had them previously imparted to us. The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it "a black eye." Among innate ideas may be mentioned the belief in one's ability to conduct a newspaper, in the greatness of one's country, in the superiority of one's civilization, in the importance of one's personal affairs and in the interesting nature of one's diseases. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Medicine | Existing from birth, especially of a disease, defect, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | Sunken, immersed. (references) |
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Synonyms: InnateSynonyms: born(p) (adj), congenital (adj), inborn (adj), inherent (adj), innate(p) (adj), natural (adj), unconditioned (adj), unlearned (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: conditioned (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. | |
Crosswords: Innate |
| English words defined with "innate": acquired immunity, Apriority ♦ biological clock, born ♦ driving ♦ impulsive, In grain, Inexistent, Ingenerate, Ingenit, innately, Innateness, Intrinsic value ♦ Konrad Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias Lorenz ♦ Lorenz ♦ Native turkey, nativism, natural, Nikolaas Tinbergen ♦ repose, reside, rest ♦ second nature ♦ Tabula rasa, talent, Tinbergen. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "innate": Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides ♦ Blaney, Brandy ♦ Escape Reaction ♦ monad ♦ Sea Foam. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "innate": ingenuous. (references) |
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Screenplays | Even the most primitive of societies have an innate respect for the insane (Rumble Fish; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola; S.E. Hinton) | |
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Samuel Butler | All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | I have not known the man, to whose innate kindliness I would more confidently make an appeal |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Men seeing the nature of this man like that of the brute, think that he has never possessed the innate faculty of reason |
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Health | Ayurveda strives to restore the innate harmony of the individual. (references) | |
Methods that control this innate ability to grow may eventually complement other therapies. (references) | ||
There are new findings regarding human beta defensin-1, a factor responsible for innate immunity. (references) | ||
Business | Given the general perception of frozen foods and the innate conservatism of most Argentine consumers, this would represent an even smaller potential market that would be affected even more seriously by logistical and scale problems. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See Molecule.) According to Leibnitz, as nearly as he seems willing to be understood, the monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation -- Leibnitz knows him by the innate power of considering. He has founded upon him a theory of the universe, which the creature bears without resentment, for the monad is a gentlmean. Small as he is, the monad contains all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher of the first class -- altogether a very capable little fellow. He is not to be confounded with the microbe, or bacillus; by its inability to discern him, a good microscope shows him to be of an entirely distinct species. |
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| "Innate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Innate" is used about 420 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% | 420 | 13,547 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "innate": congenital inborn innate ♦ Innate ideas ♦ innate immunity ♦ innate reflex ♦ innate talent. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
innate | 28 |
behavior innate | 8 |
innate immunity | 7 |
innate intelligence | 6 |
innate reflex | 2 |
immune innate system | 2 |
innate idea | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "innate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i lindur (born, congenital, inborn, inbred, native, natural, nee), prej natyre (natural, naturally). (various references) | |
Arabic | فطري (congenital, connate, fungoid, fungous, fungus, habitual, inborn, inbred, indigenous, inherent, native, natural, primitive, radical), ملازم (attendant, collateral, immanent, inherent, inseparable, lieutenant), غريزي (instinctive), سليقي, أساسي (absolute, alkaline, basal, base, capital, cardinal, close, constitutional, formal, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, inward, leading, main, major, material, momentous, nub, organic, overriding, paramount, piece de resistance, primal, primary, principal, radical, right, staple, substantial, ultimate, underling). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вроден (congenital, connate, connatural, elemental, glandular, inborn, inbred, indigenous, inherent, native, natural, radical, temperamental, unconditioned, untaught, untutored), естествен (artless, honorary, ingenuous, living, matter of course, native, natural, simple, spontaneous, unceremonious, uncoined, unpretending, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstarched, unstrained, untaught, untutored), присъщ (immanent, incidental, indigenous, inherent, intrinsic, native, natural, proper, radical, resident), инстинктивен (gut, instinctive, spontaneous). (various references) | |
Chinese | 固有 (inhere, Inhered, inherent, Inhering). (various references) | |
Czech | vrozený (congenital, connate, connatural, inborn, inbred, inherent, native). (various references) | |
Danish | medfoedt (congenital, connatal, connate, constitutional), medfødt (congenital, connate, hereditary, heritable), konnatal (congenital, connatal, connate), kongenital (congenital, connate, constitutional), kongenit (congenital, connate, constitutional), congenit (congenital, connatal, connate). (various references) | |
Dutch | ingeboren (congenital, inborn, inbred, native), aangeboren (congenital, congentital, inborn, inbred, native). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kunnaskita (congentital, inborn, inbred, native), denaska (congenital, inborn, inbred, native). (various references) | |
Farsi | فطری (Inborn, Indigenous, Ingrown, Natural, Ocular), مادرزاد, چسبنده (Adhesive, Gooey, Gummy, Inherent, Sticky, Tenacious), لاینفک (Essential), غریزی , طبیعی (Indigenous, Intrinsic, Natural, Normal, Physical, Real), ذاتی (Autochthonous, Congenital, Connate, Inborn, Indigenous, Inherent, Intrinsic, Intuitive, Inward, Natural, Substantial), جبلی (Essential, Natural), اصلی (Arch, Basic, Cardinal, Elementary, Essential, Fundametal, Genuine, Germinal, Head, Immanent, Ingrown, Inherent, Initial, Intrinsic, Main, Net, Original, Primary, Prime, Primordial, Principal, Seminal), داخلی (Esoteric, Indoor, Inner, Interior, Internal, Inward, Territorial), درونی (Esoteric, Indoor, Inmost, Inner, Innermost, Interior, Internal, Inward, Pectoral, Subjective), درون زاد (Inborn). (various references) | |
Finnish | synnynnäinen (congenital), luontainen (inherent). (various references) | |
French | naturel (inbred, inborn), inné (inborn, inbred). (various references) | |
Frisian | oanberne (congenital, inborn, inbred, native). (various references) | |
German | angeboren (inborn, native, congenital, connate, congenitally, inbred, inherent, inherently), angeborene (congenitally). (various references) | |
Greek | έμφυτοσ (immanent, inborn, inbred, inherent, instinctive, native, natural), έμφυτος, συγγενής (relative), εγγενής (inborn). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלדה (born, congenital, inborn), טבוע בדמו. (various references) | |
Hungarian | veleszületett (congenital, connate, inborn, inbred, original), bennlakó (inmate), ösztönös (instinctive). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pembawaan lahir (inborn). (various references) | |
Italian | innato (inborn, inbred, inherent, native, natural). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 本然 (disposition, inborn, inherent, natural, nature), 先天的 (a priori, congenital, hereditary, inborn, inherent), 先天 (inherent). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほんぜん (Amida Buddha's original vow, disposition, inborn, inherent, long-cherished desire, natural, nature, regular dinner, suddenly), ほんねん (disposition, inborn, inherent, natural, nature, thisyear), せんてんてき (a priori, congenital, hereditary, inborn, inherent), せんてん (gyration, inherent, revolution, rotation, whirling). (various references) | |
Korean | 타고 나는. (various references) | |
Manx | coruggyragh (inbred). (various references) | |
Norwegian | medfødt (inborn, inherent). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | innateay.(various references) | |
Polish | od urodzenia (congenital, inborn, inbred, native). (various references) | |
Portuguese | inato (congenital). (various references) | |
Romanian | inerent (inevitable, inherent, resident), firesc (careless, matter of course, native, natural, naturally, undisguised, unschooled), ereditar (hereditary, inborn, inheritable, lineal, patrimonial), din nãscare, congenital (congenital, inborn), înnãscut (born, connate, connatural, inborn, inbred, inherent, native, original). (various references) | |
Russian | врожденный (connate, inborn). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | urođen (congenital, connate, connatural, inborn, inbred, native, natural), prirođen (inbred). (various references) | |
Spanish | innato (congenital, inborn, inbred, native, congentital). (various references) | |
Swedish | medfödd (connate, inborn, inbred, inherent). (various references) | |
Thai | โดยกำเนิด (inborn, innately, native-born, natively). (various references) | |
Turkish | doğuştan olan (connate, connatural, given, inherent, unconditioned, untaught), doğuştan (congenital, congenitally, inborn, inbred, inherently, native, natural, naturally, trueborn), doğal (artless, connatural, easy, free, inartificial, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingenuous, inherent, native, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied), allah vergisi (dowry, faculty, gift, innate talent). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | властивий (appropriate, built in, congenial, facultative, immanent, incident, incidental, inherent, native, proper, resident), природжений (born, congenial, congenital, connate, habitual, inborn, inbred, ingrain, ingrained, ingrown, inherent, native, natural, organic, original, true born, unschooled). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bẩm sinh (congenital, inborn, natively, unacquired). (various references) | |
Welsh | cynhwynol (congenital, natural), cynhenid, anianol (natural). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | insitum, nativus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | âsna. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | gecynde. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "innate": innately, innateness, innatenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "innate": bipinnate, cachinnate, pinnate, tripinnate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "innate": bipinnately, cachinnated, cachinnates, pinnated, pinnately, tripinnately. (additional references) | |
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"Innate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: annates, annete, ennate, Ignatov, Ignaty, inaat, inait, iname, Inasti, Inat, inate, Inatio, inats, inerate, infate, ingnite, iniate, inna, innage, innat, innatist, innnit, innote, inqate, inrate, inte, in't'e, inuate, invndate, linate, Oenanthe, sinnate, Winnat, Winnats. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "innate" (pronounced i'nā"t) |
| 3 | -n ā" t | ornate, Recriminate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-n-t" | |
-1 letter: anent, entia, inane, tenia, tinea. | |
-2 letters: ante, anti, etna, neat, nine, nite, tain, tine. | |
-3 letters: ain, ait, ane, ani, ant, ate, eat, eta, inn, nae, nan, net, nit, tae, tan, tea, ten, tie, tin. | |
-4 letters: ae, ai, an, at, en, et, in, it, na, ne, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: ancient, anteing, antigen, enation, entrain, gentian, inanest, infante, mannite, pinnate, stanine. | |
+2 letters: agenting, ancients, anointed, anointer, antigene, antigens, antinode, antinuke, canniest, dentinal, enacting, enations, entrains, faineant, gantline, gentians, immanent, incanted, inerrant, infantes, innately, innovate, insanest, insectan, instance, internal, intonate, intranet, inundate, latening, mannites, naething, negating, negation, nominate, pinnated, reanoint, sonatine, stanines, stannite, trainmen, triennia, uncinate, venation, venetian, xanthein, xanthine. | |
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