innate - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'innate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Innate

[ a.]

- 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.
- Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.

2 . Innate

[ v. t.]

- To cause to exit; to call into being.

Meaning of 'innate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . innate

[ a]

Meaning (1):
- not established by conditioning or learning

Example in sentence:

an unconditioned reflex

2 . innate

[ s]

Meaning (2):
- being talented through inherited qualities

Example in sentence:

a born musician;
a natural leader;
an innate talent

Nearby Words:

inn innately innateness innative innavigable inne inned inner innerly innermost

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Innate
Innate means a genetically inherited tendency that is present at birth though it may not become active until later life.
Innate releasing mechanism
Innate releasing mechanism is a concept introduced by Nikolaas Tinbergen, a European pioneer of ethnology. His observations of stickleback fish led him to wonder how male

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