1. innate - Adjective
2. innate - Verb
3. innate - Adjective Satellite
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.
Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
To cause to exit; to call into being.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAll progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler (novelist)
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. Bernard Mandeville
Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever. Arthur Schopenhauer
There is an innate anxiety which supplants in us both knowledge and intuition. Emil Cioran
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead the one being an innate desire of pleasure the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. Socrates
[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing. Anthony Powell