inborn
adjective
Synonyms
- built-in
- constitutional
- constitutive
- essential
- hardwired
- immanent
- inbred
- indigenous
- ingrain
- ingrained
- engrained
- inherent
- innate
- integral
- intrinsic
- native
- natural
Example Sentences
Grace Browne, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2022 Rather, perhaps via some inborn genetic quirk, her cells had found a way to naturally repel the pathogen’s assaults instead. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022 The new study attempted to obtain an understanding of intuitive physics in the same manner that developmental psychologists think an infant does by first displaying an inborn awareness of what an object is. Dana G. Smith, Scientific American, 11 July 2022 Anyway, Men In Black II arrived five years after the first, bringing a lot more inborn familiarity with its aliens-among-us premise, and considerably less shine. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 7 July 2022 From the late 19th and well into the 20th century, a host of conditions, which included lunacy but also feeblemindedness, epilepsy and pauperism, were believed to be caused by an inborn hereditary taint impervious to any and all treatment. Siri Hustvedt, Washington Post, 3 June 2022 Unfortunately, Robert also believed that the inborn qualities of Jews were lacking. Outside Online, 5 May 2022 Some of it might be inborn biology, drawn from genetics or age. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022 For that matter, Baranski works wonders at conveying the inborn disdain Agnes has for people like the Russells, even when the scripts portray them as more or less the same. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2022 See More Word History
1513, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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inborn
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Medical Definition
inborn
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inborn
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Synonyms & Similar Words
- inherent
- intrinsic
- integral
- innate
- essential
- hereditary
- natural
- constitutional
- inherited
- indigenous
- ingrained
- hardwired
- congenital
- inbred
- inner
- constitutive
- native
- immanent
- fundamental
- elemental
- engrained
- basic
- ingrain
- built-in
- characteristic
- internal
- distinctive
- peculiar
- in one's blood
- inmost
- interior
- deep-rooted
- habitual
- inveterate
- normal
- typical
- regular
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- extrinsic
- adventitious
- foreign
- extraneous
- alien
- accidental
- incidental
- acquired
- external
- surface
- coincidental
- superficial
- exterior
- adscititious
Synonyms & Similar Words
- inherent
- genetic
- hereditary
- inherited
- inheritable
- genetical
- innate
- heritable
- congenital
- inbred
- natural
- native
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- nonhereditary
- acquired
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of inborn are congenital, hereditary, inbred, and innate. While all these words mean "not acquired after birth," inborn suggests a quality or tendency either actually present at birth or so marked and deep-seated as to seem so.
Both congenital and hereditary refer to what is acquired before or at birth, the former to things acquired during fetal development and the latter to things transmitted from one's ancestors.
The words inbred and inborn are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, inbred suggests something either acquired from parents by heredity or so deeply rooted and ingrained as to seem acquired in that way.
The synonyms innate and inborn are sometimes interchangeable, but innate applies to qualities or characteristics that are part of one's inner essential nature.