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:

     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)

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