innative en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ɪˈneɪtɪv/ (UK)
Etymology
From innate + -ive, after native.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, obsolete) native
His son shall make to his innative port
1614–1615, Homer, “The Fifth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
- (not-comparable, obsolete) innate