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UK
/ɪnnˈeɪt/
]
[ US /ˌɪˈneɪt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˈneɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not established by conditioning or learning
an unconditioned reflex -
being talented through inherited qualities
a born musician
a natural leader
an innate talent - present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development
How To Use innate In A Sentence
- The bieing innate of a battery based upon peoples entrance to fast as well as postulated for benefaction needs. Archive 2009-12-01
- Knowing the innate power of the press, he bought a mimeograph machine.
- Let us adopt then words sanctioned by usage, and give the distinction between intelligence and instinct this more precise formula: _Intelligence, in so far as it is innate, is the knowledge of a_ form; _instinct implies the knowledge of a_ matter. Evolution créatrice. English
- Success has come so naturally that the young Italian exudes an innate, unquestioned belief in his own talents.
- I also saw a large tree and obtained specimens of it, belonging to the natural order BIGNONIACEAE, with terminal spikes of yellow flowers, and rough cordate leaves; and a proteaceous plant with long compound racemes of white flowers, and deeply cut leaves, resembling a tree with true pinnate leaves. Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York
- The genus Prionospio Malmgren 1867 includes species with smooth, non-pinnate and pinnate branchiae arranged in various combinations.
- Whether or not you're a logomaniac (one obsessed with words), this esoteric collection of English words should prove entertaining; it even might make you cachinnate (laugh loudly) as you turn the pages.
- -- A tree, with leaves bunched at the extremities of the branches, oblong, oval, acuminate, odd-pinnate, 3-4 pairs of opposite leaflets. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
- The top selling non-fiction book Blink is coining mucho bling for Malcolm Gladwell, yet in 1997 Gladwell wrote a New Yorker article called "The Sports Taboo: Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls," which made exactly the same argument as Larry Summers made about what is innately different in the capabilities of males and females -- that men have a larger standard deviation on many traits, so there are more men at the top and bottom of the bell curves. Archive 2005-02-27
- They bear bipinnate leaves with small, oval to lanceolate leaflets.