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| Main Entry: | hereditary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inherited; transmitted at birth |
| Synonyms: | ancestral, family, genetic, inborn, inbred, inherited, maternal, paternal, traditional, bequeathed, genealogical, handed down, heritable, inheritable, lineal, patrimonial, transmissible, transmitted, willed |
| Antonyms: | acquired |
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| Main Entry: | derivative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | borrowed, transmitted from source |
| Synonyms: | acquired, ancestral, cognate, copied, hereditary, imitative, inferential, secondary, secondhand, subordinate, unoriginal, caused, coming from, connate, evolved, inferred, not original, obtained, plagiaristic, plagiarized, procured, rehashed, uninventive |
| Antonyms: | inventive, original, unique, unborrowed |
| Main Entry: | genetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coming from heredity |
| Synonyms: | ancestral, hereditary, historical, abiogenetic, digenetic, eugenic, genesiological, genital, matriclinous, patrimonial, phytogenetic, sporogenous, xenogenetic |
| Antonyms: | acquired |
| Main Entry: | inborn/inbred |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coming from birth; natural |
| Synonyms: | congenital, constitutional, deep-seated, essential, hereditary, inbred, indigenous, ingrained, inherent, inherited, innate, instinctive, intrinsic, intuitive, native, connate, connatural, indwelling, ingenerate, unacquired |
| Antonyms: | acquired, earned |
| Main Entry: | ingrained |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deep-rooted |
| Synonyms: | built-in, chronic, confirmed, congenital, constitutional, deep-seated, fixed, fundamental, hereditary, inborn, inbred, indelible, inherent, innate, intrinsic, inveterate, rooted, implanted, in the blood, inbuilt, indwelling, ineradicable |
| Antonyms: | superficial, surface |
| Main Entry: | innate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inherited, native |
| Synonyms: | congenital, constitutional, deep-seated, elemental, essential, hereditary, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingrained, inherent, instinctive, intrinsic, intuitive, natural, normal, regular, standard, typical, connate, connatural, unacquired |
| Notes: | the word innate means 'inborn' and should apply to living things; inherent is 'essential, intrinsic' and applies best to nonliving things like ideas |
| Antonyms: | acquired, extrinsic, learned |
| Main Entry: | intrinsic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, inborn |
| Synonyms: | built-in, central, congenital, constitutional, deep-seated, elemental, essential, fundamental, genuine, hereditary, inbred, inherent, inmost, innate, intimate, material, native, natural, particular, peculiar, real, true, underlying, connate, constitutive, indwelling |
| Antonyms: | accidental, acquired, extrinsic, incidental, learned |
| Main Entry: | racial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ethnic |
| Synonyms: | ancestral, folk, genetic, hereditary, national, ethnological, genealogical, lineal, phyletic, phylogenetic, tribal |
| Main Entry: | inborn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | natural |
| Synonyms: | congenital, constitutional, deep-seated, essential, hereditary, inbred, indigenous, ingrained, inherent, inherited, innate, instinctive, intrinsic, intuitive, native, connate, connatural, indwelling, ingenerate, unacquired |
| Antonyms: | acquired, learned |
| Main Entry: | native |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | innate, inherent |
| Synonyms: | built-in, congenital, constitutional, endemic, essential, fundamental, genuine, hereditary, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingrained, inherited, instinctive, intrinsic, inveterate, natural, original, real, wild, connate, connatural, implanted, inwrought, natal, unacquired |
| Antonyms: | alien, foreign, outside |
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| Main Entry: | inherent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
inherent, bred in the bone, characteristic, congenital, congenite, connate, derived from within, essential, fixed, fundamental, hereditary, immanent, implanted, in the grain, inborn, inbred, incarnate, incurable, indigenous, ineradicable, ingenerate, ingrained, innate, instinctive, internal, intrinsic, intrinsical, invariable, inward, inwrought, longaminous, natural, normal, radical, running in the blood, subjective, thoroughbred, to the manner born, virtual
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