Word Meanings - CONNATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as, connate leaves or athers. See Illust. of Connate-perfoliate. (more info) 1. Born with another; being of the same birth. 2. Congenital; existing from

Additional info about word: CONNATE

Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as, connate leaves or athers. See Illust. of Connate-perfoliate. (more info) 1. Born with another; being of the same birth. 2. Congenital; existing from birth. "Connate notions." South. A difference has been made by some; those diseases or conditions which are dependent on original conformation being called congenital; while the diseases of affections that may have supervened during gestation or delivery are called connate. Dunglison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONNATE)

• Congenital
• Coeval
• coetaneous
• natural
• inherent
• innate
• immanent
• ingrained
• incarnate
• connate
• ingenerate

Related words: (words related to CONNATE)

• 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.
• 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.
• CONNATE-PERFOLIATE
  Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.
• INCARNATE
  Not in the flesh; spiritual. I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do. Richardson.
• 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)
• NATURALIZE
  1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
• 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
• INNATENESS
  The quality of being innate.
• CONGENITALLY
  In a congenital manner.
• INGENERATE
  Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body. W. Wotton. Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment. Bacon.
• NATURALNESS
  The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
• CONGENITAL
  Existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutinal; natural; as, a congenital deformity. See Connate.
• COETANEOUS
  Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; contemporaneous. -- Co`e*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. And all are coetaneous. Bentley.
• NATURALISM
  The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting
• NATURALLY
  In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.
• INHERENTLY
  By inherence; inseparably. Matter hath inherently and essentially such an internal energy. Bentley.
• NATURALISTIC
  1. Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism. 2. Closely resembling nature; realistic. "Naturalistic bit of pantomime." W. D. Howells.
• INNATELY
  Naturally.
• NATURALIZATION
  The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• PARIPINNATE
  Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.
• IMPARIPINNATE
  Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.
• PINNATELY
  In a pinnate manner.
• SUPERNATURAL
  Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous. Syn. -- Preternatural. -- Supernatural, Preternatural. Preternatural signifies beside nature, and supernatural, above or beyond nature. What is very greatly aside from the ordinary
• SUPERNATURALISM
  The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than
• PRETERNATURALISM
  The state of being preternatural; a preternatural condition.
• CONNATURALITY
  Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection. A congruity and connaturality between them. Sir M. Hale.
• SUPRANATURALISM
  The state of being supernatural; belief in supernatural agency or revelation; supernaturalism.