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Synonyms for congenital

  • adjective

Most common

innate inborn connate connatural in-bred connatal

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Inborn

inborn, innate, natural, native, intrinsic, inherent, constitutional, indigenous, ingrained, connate, connatural

Other

in-bred, incarnate, coeval, connatal, congenite dated, genetous dated

Antonyms

acquired

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Of a trait or a disease, present since birth.

Related words

Phrases
congenital disorder congenital heart defect congenital heart disease

Choose the right word

Congenital, Inherent, Intrinsic, Inborn, Inbred or Innate?

Inherent and intrinsic may be said of persons or things; congenital, inborn, inbred, innate, apply to living beings. Congenital is frequent in medical and legal use with special application to defects; as, congenital idiocy.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • innate Gauss had an innate talent for mathematical problems.
  • inborn Linguistic competence is inborn, not acquired.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
congenitalsteady
innaterising
inbornsteady
connatefalling
connaturalsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

6 letters
native2, innate2, inborn2, coeval
7 letters
natural3, connate
8 letters
inherent3, connatal, genetous
9 letters
intrinsic3, ingrained2, incarnate3, congenite
10 letters
indigenous4, connatural
14 letters
constitutional5

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (native2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
congénital
Italiano
congenito