Adjective

(en adjective)

Man-made; of artifice.

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False, misleading.

Unnatural.

Adjective

(-)

Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See a priori, intuitive.

* South

There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil.

* John Locke

how men may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions

(botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.

(Gray)