ingenerate

[in-jen-er-it] / ɪnˈdʒɛn ər ɪt /

ADJECTIVE

born

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constitutional essential natural

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built-in congenital deep-seated inborn inbred inherent intrinsic

ADJECTIVE

inborn

Synonyms

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congenital hereditary ingrained innate instinctive intrinsic intuitive

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connate connatural constitutional deep-seated essential inbred indigenous indwelling inherent inherited native unacquired

Antonyms

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acquired extrinsic learned meditated

ADJECTIVE

inborn/inbred

Synonyms

WEAK

congenital connate connatural constitutional deep-seated essential hereditary indigenous indwelling ingrained inherent inherited innate instinctive intrinsic intuitive native unacquired

Antonyms

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acquired earned

ADJECTIVE

natural

Synonyms

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common essential innate instinctive legitimate logical ordinary reasonable usual

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characteristic commonplace constant familiar general natal native probable regular uniform universal

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accustomed anticipated congenital connatural consistent counted on customary habitual inborn indigenous inherent intuitive involuntary looked-for matter-of-course prevailing prevalent relied on spontaneous typic typical unacquired uncontrolled

Antonyms

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abnormal atypical extraordinary irregular uncommon unreasonable unusual

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changing exceptional foreign inconsistent infrequent particular rare unsteady

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affected artificial different fixed modified pretended refined unnatural

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Ingenerate, in-jen′ėr-āt, v.t. to generate or produce within.—adj. inborn: innate.

From Project Gutenberg

Her birth was of the womb of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous prime, And all her whole creation did her show Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime That is ingenerate in fleshly slime.

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Nor ever had there been a woman born more elaborately equipped for the position of a public man's mate; nor more ingenerate, perhaps, with the power to turn earth into heaven.

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Nameless specters peered at him from every shadow, ingenerate familiars of his wild, forgotten blood.

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Deeply am I persuaded of Luther's position, that no man can worthily estimate, or feel in the depth of his being, the Incarnation and Crucifixion of the Son of God who is a stranger to the terror of immortality as ingenerate in man, while it is yet unquelled by the faith in God as the Almighty Father.

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