Word Meanings - CONGENITAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutinal; natural; as, a congenital deformity. See Connate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONGENITAL)

• Immanent
• Inherent
• innate
• subjective
• indwelling
• internal
• intrinsic
• congenital
• ingrained
• natural
• implicit
• Innate
• imminent
• inborn
• inbred
• Native
• Indigenous
• home
• exported
• artless
• proper
• suitable
• vernacular

Related words: (words related to CONGENITAL)

• INTRINSICAL
  1. Intrinsic. 2. Intimate; closely familiar. Sir H. Wotton.
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• PROPER
  Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
• INGRAIN
  1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• EXPORT
  1. The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco. 2. That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; -- used chiefly in the plural, exports. The ordinary
• INBORN
  Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions. Cowper. Syn. -- Innate; inherent; natural.
• IMPLICITNESS
  State or quality of being implicit.
• VERNACULAR
  Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. "A vernacular disease." Harvey. His skill the vernacular dialect of the
• EXPORTABLE
  Suitable for exportation; as, exportable products.
• IMPLICITY
  Implicitness. Cotgrave.
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• INNATE
  Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive. There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common
• INBRED
  Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth. "Inbred sentiments." Burke.
• INNATENESS
  The quality of being innate.
• CONGENITALLY
  In a congenital manner.
• IMMINENT
  1. Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril. "In danger imminent." Spenser. 2. Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous. Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Shak.
• INTERNALLY
  1. Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface. 2. Hence: Mentally; spiritually. Jer. Taylor.
• NATIVE
  1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• PARIPINNATE
  Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.
• REEXPORTATION
  The act of reëxporting, or of exporting an import. A. Smith.
• REEXPORT
  To export again, as what has been imported.
• NONVERNACULAR
  Not vernacular. A nonvernacular expression. Sir W. Hamilton.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne