Synonyms:
connatural, inborn, inbred
Meaning: normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of the good"
Synonyms:
congenital, inborn, innate
Meaning: present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development
Usage examples
She spoke, moved, posed, gesticulated, with an inborn genius shining through every motion and tone like an illuminating lamp.
It is too frail to carry the whole burden of popular sovereignty, to supply spontaneously the truth which democrats hoped was inborn.
But Josie Pye, if deficient in some qualities that make for popularity, had at least a natural and inborn gift, duly cultivated, for walking board fences.
Yet some people may be surprised that men with any love of justice, whether inborn or otherwise, could continue to abide the arrogance, and rapacity, and tyranny of the Doones.
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