What is "innate" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does innate mean in English? Meaning of innate definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "innate" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "innate": not established by conditioning or learning

Adjective

  • Meaning: not established by conditioning or learning
  • Example: an unconditioned reflex
  • Synonyms: innate unconditioned unlearned
  • Antonyms: conditioned learned
  • Similar: naive
  • Meaning of "innate": being talented through inherited qualities

    Adjective

  • Meaning: being talented through inherited qualities
  • Example: a natural leader a born musician an innate talent
  • Synonyms: born innate natural
  • Similar: intelligent
  • Meaning of "innate": present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development

    Adjective

  • Meaning: present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development
  • Synonyms: congenital inborn innate
  • Similar: nonheritable noninheritable
  • Adjective: Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See a priori, intuitive. South There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil. John Locke how men […] may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressionsSouth There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil.John Locke how men […] may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions(botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther. (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)
  • Synonyms:

    ingrained, intuitive, inborn, elemental, deep-seated, inherent, instinctive, intrinsic, congenital, constitutional, essential, hereditary, inbred, indigenous, natural, normal, regular, standard, typical, connate, connatural, unacquired,

    Antonyms:

    learned, extrinsic, incidental, meditated, acquired,

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    innate in English: innate
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