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Innately

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Adverb

1. innately

in an innate manner

Example Sentences:
'the child is said to be innately disposed to learn language'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Innately

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adjective
1. 
existing in a person or animal from birth; congenital; inborn
2. 
being an essential part of the character of a person or thing
3. 
instinctive; not learned
innate capacities
4. botany
(of anthers) joined to the filament by the base only
5. 
(in rationalist philosophy) (of ideas) present in the mind before any experience and knowable by pure reason

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Innately

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adjective
1. 
a. 
existing naturally rather than acquired; that seems to have been in one from birth
innate talent
b. 
existing as an inherent attribute
the innate humor of a situation
2.  Botany
borne at the apex of the support, as an anther

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Innately

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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).

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