The difference between Innate and Native

When used as adjectives, innate means inborn, whereas native means belonging to one by birth.


Innate is also verb with the meaning: to cause to exist.

Native is also noun with the meaning: a person who is native to a place.

check bellow for the other definitions of Innate and Native

  1. Innate as an adjective:

    Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.

  2. Innate as an adjective (philosophy):

    Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience

    Examples:

    "'innate ideas"

  3. Innate as an adjective:

    Instinctive; coming from instinct.

  4. Innate as an adjective (botany):

    Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament.

    Examples:

    "an innate [[anther]]"

  1. Innate as a verb (obsolete):

    To cause to exist; to call into being.

  1. Native as an adjective:

    Belonging to one by birth.

    Examples:

    "This is my native land."

    "English is not my native language."

    "I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…"

  2. Native as an adjective:

    Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.

    Examples:

    "What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians."

    "The native peoples of Australia are called aborigines."

  3. Native as an adjective:

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  4. Native as an adjective:

    Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.

    Examples:

    "a native inhabitant"

    "native oysters or strawberries"

    "Many native artists studied abroad."

  5. Native as an adjective (biology, of a species):

    Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by man.

    Examples:

    "The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple."

  6. Native as an adjective (computing, of software):

    Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.

    Examples:

    "This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds."

    "The native integer size is sixteen bits."

  7. Native as an adjective (mineralogy):

    Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form; native aluminium, native salt.

  8. Native as an adjective:

    Arising by birth; having an origin; born.

  9. Native as an adjective:

    Original; constituting the original substance of anything.

    Examples:

    "native dust"

    "rfquotek Milton"

  10. Native as an adjective:

    Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).

  1. Native as a noun:

    A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.

  2. Native as a noun (in particular):

    A person of aboriginal stock, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. .

    Examples:

    "Some natives must have stolen our cattle."

  3. Native as a noun:

    A native speaker.

  4. Native as a noun:

    Ostrea edulis, a kind of oyster.