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.
As a noun inuit is
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innate
English
Adjective
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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)
Usage notes
* Nouns often used with "innate": knowledge, idea, immunity, etc.
Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* innateness
Related terms
* antenatal
* nascent
* natal
* native
* nativism
* natural
* nature
* naturism
* naturalism
* prenatal
Verb
To cause to exist; to call into being.
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inuit
English
Alternative forms
* (l)
Noun
(
Inuit)
English plurals Any of several Aboriginal peoples of coastal Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland.
(nonstandard) Individual members of the Inuit peoples.
Synonyms
* Eskimo (potentially offensive in Canada and Greenland)
* Inuk (qualifier)
* Inuits (qualifier)
* Inupiat, Inupiaq, , or Inupik (Alaska)
* Inuvialuit (Northwest Territories)
* Inuinnaq (qualifier)
* Nunavummiut (Nunavut)
* Nunavimmiut (qualifier)
* Labrador Inuit (qualifier)
* Greenlander (Greenland)
* Kalaallit (southwest Greenland)
* Skraeling (historical)
Derived terms
* Canadian Inuit dog, Inuit dog
Related terms
* Inukshuk
Synonyms
* Inupiatun, or Inupiak, and Qawiaraq (Alaska)
* Inuvialuktun (Northwest Territories)
* Inuinnaqtun (qualifier)
* Inuktitut (Nunavut)
* Nunavimmiutitut (qualifier)
* Nunatsiavummiutut, Labradorimiutut, or locally Inuttut (qualifier)
* Greenlandic, or Kalaallisut (Greenland)
Adjective
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en adjective)
Of or pertaining to Inuit people, language, or culture.
Usage notes
The northern indigenous peoples of North America used to be called (Eskimo), but the term has fallen out of use and is considered offensive in Canada and Greenland, because it was once thought to stem from a pejorative (see ). (term) is the accepted term in Canada, and has gained some currency in the United States. However, (term) continues to be the prevalent name in Alaska for both the Inuit (Inupiat) people and the non-Inuit (Yupik).
Also note that (term) and (Eskimo) do not include the related (Aleut) people ((Unangam)), nor the Indian or First Nations peoples of the Arctic.
Many dictionaries do not list (Inuits) as a plural form. (term) is usually used as an ethnonym with no singular form (like (Chinese)). The need to treat (term) as a singular is obviated by wider recognition of its etymological singular form (Inuk) in recent times.
The Inuit language comprises a continuum of locally-intelligible dialects, with their own variations of the name for themselves and their own language. A number of these names have official status.
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