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inborn
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of INBORN
1
being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing <an inborn talent for dancing>
Synonyms built-in, constitutional, constitutive, essential, hardwired, immanent, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingrain, ingrained (also engrained), innate, integral, intrinsic, native, natural
Related Words basic, deep-rooted, elemental, fundamental; congenital, hereditary, inherited, inmost, inner, interior; internal; characteristic, distinctive, peculiar; habitual, inveterate; normal, regular, typical
Near Antonyms alien, foreign; accidental, coincidental, incidental; acquired, adscititious; superficial, surface; exterior, external
2
genetically passed or capable of being passed from parent to offspring <certain instincts are inborn in mice>
Near Antonyms acquired
Antonyms nonhereditary
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