as in inherently
by natural character or ability
Anne Frank's memorable belief that most people are innately good
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Recent Examples of innately
Also, Koji innately tastes better, too.
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Akiko Katayama, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Perhaps acting is innately nostalgic—nostalgic for human suffering, which used to be real somewhere else.
—Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
What Inigo seemed to understand almost innately was that secrecy meant control.
—Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
For example, short-nosed dogs are innately less friendly toward other dogs, but this is offset by their youth (younger dogs are typically more sociable).
—Laura Baisas Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
Akiko Katayama, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Perhaps acting is innately nostalgic—nostalgic for human suffering, which used to be real somewhere else.
—Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
What Inigo seemed to understand almost innately was that secrecy meant control.
—Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
For example, short-nosed dogs are innately less friendly toward other dogs, but this is offset by their youth (younger dogs are typically more sociable).
—Laura Baisas Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innately
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Much of the discrepancy here is likely tied more to sleep than to something inherently beneficial about getting up at the crack of dawn.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
4 Sep. 2025
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Despite an increase in workload, Currie says the program isn’t going anywhere as long as people believe that wildlife is inherently valuable.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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And those numbers are what, fundamentally, stock prices are based on.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2025
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However, this paradigm implies that both A and B are fundamentally authentic and that attackers lack the resources to successfully replicate or create either.—
Rohan Pinto,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Innately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innately. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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