Innate vs Ingenious - What's the difference?
innate | ingenious |
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
* John Locke
(botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
To cause to exist; to call into being.
Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.
Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.
Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.
As adjectives the difference between innate and ingenious
is that innate is inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence while ingenious is displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.As a verb innate
is to cause to exist; to call into being.innate
English
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)
Usage notes
* Nouns often used with "innate": knowledge, idea, immunity, etc.Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* innatenessVerb
References
* *Anagrams
* ----ingenious
English
Alternative forms
* engeniousAdjective
(en adjective)- This fellow is ingenious ; he fixed a problem I didn't even know I had.
- That is an ingenious model of the atom.
- He sent me an ingenious reply for an email.