Inmate vs Innate - What's the difference?
inmate | innate |
A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient)
A person who occupies or dwells within a dwelling-house. The word came to be used to refer to temporary inhabitants such as guests in a hotel, students in an on-campus dormitory, patients in a hospital, or prisoners.
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.
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(botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
To cause to exist; to call into being.
As a noun inmate
is a person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient.As an adjective innate is
inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.As a verb innate is
to cause to exist; to call into being.inmate
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Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Perhaps around 1970, television journalists began to use the word as a euphemism for "prisoner", and today perhaps many young people cannot remember that it ever had any other meaning.Anagrams
* *innate
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Adjective
(-)- There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil.
- how men may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions
- (Gray)
