born — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Related words

   bornenénée

   Examples

   In the United States, information describing the operation of nuclear weapons is born secret.

   a born leader

   More examples (3)

   I'll make it out, deny it he that can, / His Worship is a True-born Engliſhman, / In all the Latitude that Empty Word / By Modern Acceptation's understood.

   I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a born scoundrel.

   “Your desert boots are fitted slip-fashion at the ankles. Who told you to do that?” "It . . . seemed the right way." "That it most certainly is." And Kynes rubbed his cheek, thinking of the legend: "He shall know your ways as though born to them."

Adjective

1. brought into existence

   Antonyms

   unborn

   Examples

   he was a child born of adultery

2. being talented through inherited qualities

   Synonyms

   naturalinnate

   Examples

   a natural leader

   a born musician

   More examples (1)

   an innate talent