inborn

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.bɔːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.bɔɹn/

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Adjective

inborn (not comparable)

1. Innate, possessed by an organism at birth.

   inborn talent

   inborn instincts

   • September 20 1995, Oliver James, “From Venus and Mars”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     However, a scientific study just published in American Psychologist provides strong reasons to doubt that there are many inborn differences between genders.

2. Inherited or hereditary.

Synonyms

• see also Thesaurus:innate

Derived terms

• inbornness

Translations

Innate, possessed by an organism at birth

• Bulgarian: вроден (bg) (vroden)
• Catalan: innat (ca)
• Dutch: aangeboren (nl)
• French: inné (fr)
• German: angeboren (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἔμφυτος (émphutos), ἐγγενής (engenḗs)

• Kazakh: туа (tua)
• Macedonian: вроден m (vroden)
• Manx: dooghyssagh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: medfødt

  Nynorsk: medfødd

• Old English: onġeboren
• Russian: прирождённый (ru) (priroždjónnyj), врождённый (ru) (vroždjónnyj)
• Spanish: innato (es)

Inherited or hereditary

• Bulgarian: наследствен (bg) (nasledstven)

Anagrams

• bornin