innate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   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.

2. 2
   adj

   Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience.

   innate ideas

3. 3
   adj

   Instinctive; coming from instinct.

   Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself.

4. 4
   adj

   Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament.

   an innate anther

5. 5
   verb

   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 / VVhen they will zany men.

6. 6
   adj

   being talented through inherited qualities

7. 7
   adj

   present at birth but not necessarily hereditary

8. 8
   adj

   not established by conditioning or learning

Etymology

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).