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in·nate
(ĭ-nāt′, ĭn′āt′)adj.
1.
a. Existing naturally or by heredity rather than being learned through experience: "Chimpanzees show an innate distrust of contact with strangers" (Cindy Engel).
b. Of or produced by the mind rather than learned through experience: an innate knowledge of right and wrong.
2. Possessed as an essential characteristic; inherent: "As the Army and farmers built more and more levees, the Missouri lost an innate capacity to absorb its frequent excesses" (William Least Heat-Moon).
[Middle English innat, from Latin innātus, past participle of innāscī, to be born in : in-, in; see in-2 + nāscī, to be born; see genə- in Indo-European roots.]
in·nate′ly adv.
in·nate′ness n.
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Adv. | 1. | innately - in an innate manner; "the child is said to be innately disposed to learn language" |
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
innately
[ɪˈneɪtli] adv [good, gifted, aggressive] → foncièrementinnately cautions → d'une prudence innée
innately superior → d'une supériorité innée
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
innately
adv (= naturally) → von Natur aus
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007