'Innate' definitions:
Definition of 'innate'
From: WordNet
adjective
Not established by conditioning or learning; "an unconditioned reflex" [syn: unconditioned, innate, unlearned] [ant: conditioned, learned]
adjective
Being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" [syn: natural, born(p), innate(p)]
adjective
Present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development [syn: congenital, inborn, innate]
Definition of 'Innate'
From: GCIDE
- Innate \In"nate\ ([i^]n"n[asl]t or [i^]n*n[=a]t"; 277), a. [L. innatus; pref. in- in + natus born, p. p. of nasci to be born. See Native.]
- 1. Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Metaph.) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive. [1913 Webster]
- There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Men would not be guilty if they did not carry in their mind common notions of morality, innate and written in divine letters. --Fleming (Origen). [1913 Webster]
- If I could only show, as I hope I shall . . . how men, barely by the use of their natural faculties, may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions; and may arrive at certainty without any such original notions or principles. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Bot.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther. --Gray. [1913 Webster]
- Innate ideas (Metaph.), ideas, as of God, immortality, right and wrong, supposed by some to be inherent in the mind, as a priori principles of knowledge. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Innate'
From: GCIDE
- Innate \In*nate"\, v. t. To cause to exit; to call into being. [Obs.] "The first innating cause." --Marston. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'innate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- atavistic,
- automatic,
- bodily,
- born,
- coeval,
- congenital,
- connatal,
- connate,
- connatural,
- constitutional,
- deep-seated,
- elemental,
- essential,
- genetic,
- genic,
- hereditary,
- impulsive,
- in the blood,
- inborn,
- inbred,
- incarnate,
- indigenous,
- ingrained,
- inherent,
- inherited,
- instinctive,
- instinctual,
- intrinsic,
- involuntary,
- libidinal,
- matroclinous,
- native,
- native to,
- natural,
- natural to,
- normal,
- organic,
- patrimonial,
- patroclinous,
- physical,
- primal,
- regular,
- spontaneous,
- standard,
- subliminal,
- temperamental,
- typical,
- unacquired,
- unconscious,
- unlearned