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native
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of NATIVE
1
belonging to a particular place by birth or origin <though she now lived in the Northeast, she was a native Midwesterner>
Near Antonyms imported, introduced, transplanted; alien, exotic, foreign, strange; expatriate, immigrant
Antonyms nonindigenous, nonnative
2
being such as found in nature and not altered by processing or refining <diamonds in their native state are not the bright, flashy gems that one might imagine>
Related Words undeveloped; rough-hewn, semifinished, unfinished, unpolished; uncooked; impure, unfiltered
3
being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing <a native energy and ambition that would allow him to rise above his humble beginnings>
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
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