1
: present from or as if from birth
2
Examples of inborn in a Sentence
She has an inborn talent for music.
That kind of knowledge is acquired, not inborn.
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 28 Jan. 2025
The biggest concern, according to eugenicists, was that these antisocial tendencies were inborn—that genes for crime and poverty were being smuggled into the country in the blood of immigrants.
—Arthur Caplan, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
Her looks and style seem inborn.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
But that look of inborn chic didn’t just happen.
—Tonya Blazio-Licorish, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
See All Example Sentences for inborn
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“Inborn.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inborn. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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inborn
adjective
in·born
ˈin-ˈbȯ(ə)rn 
1
: born in one : not acquired by training or experience : natural, instinctive
an inborn ability to grow flowers
2
: hereditary sense 1, inherited
an inborn defect in metabolism
Medical Definition
inborn
adjective
in·born
ˈin-ˈbȯ(ə)rn
: hereditary, inherited
inborn errors of metabolism
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