inborn/inbred

To counteract selfishness, that inborn, inbred mischief, I hold to be the great art of education.

“Look at him here; if ever there was an inborn, inbred aristocratic son of a revolutionist—” “He barricaded the streets of Paris with his fellow-students in his turn, don’t forget,” said King.

Inherent and intrinsic may be said of persons or things; congenital, inborn, inbred, innate, apply to living beings.

Adj. affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast; attempered†, tempered; framed; predisposed; prone, inclined; having a bias &c. n.; tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with. inborn, inbred, ingrained; deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate; pathoscopic†; congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain. affective.

Adj. derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical†; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous†, haematobious†, syngenic†; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite†; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate†, ingenite†; indigenous; in the grain &c. n.; bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal &c.