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innate
- /ɪˈneɪt/
Rhymes with -eɪt
Where it comes from
The adjective is first attested in the 1420s, the verb in 1602; from Middle English innat(e) (“innate, inborn”), borrowed from Latin innātus (“inborn, innate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), perfect active participle of innāscor (“to be born in, grow up in”), from in- (“in, at on”) + nāscor (“to be born”); see natal, native. The verb is derived from the adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
adjective
- Inborn; existing or having existed since birth. Ironically, given France's innate reluctance to permit competition at home, the first breach in Renfe's monopoly came from SNCF offshoot Ouigo España in 2021.
- Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience. innate ideas
- Instinctive; coming from instinct. Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself.
- Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament. an innate anther
Similar: connate, connatural, congenital, congenite, genetous, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingenite, innate, native, natural
verb innates · innating · innated
- To cause to exist; to call into being. I never ſaw a foole leane : the chub-fac’d fop / Shines ſleek with full cramm’d fat of happineſſe, / VVhilſt ſtudious contemplation ſucks the juice / From wiſards cheekes : who making curious ſearch / For Natures ſecrets, the firſt innating cauſe / Laughs them to ſcorne, as man doth buſy Apes / VVhe
