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inburnt

inburnt adjective: innate or hard-wired.

Adjective

inburnt (comparative more inburnt, superlative most inburnt)

  1. innate or hard-wired
    • We have gone into the modern world with an inburnt knowledge of human limitations and with a sense of mystery which could not have developed in our first state of innocence1969, Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Forms of inburnt

comparativemore inburnt
superlativemost inburnt

Origin of inburnt

From in + burnt.

Questions about inburnt

What does inburnt mean?
Inburnt means innate or hard-wired.
What part of speech is inburnt?
Inburnt is an adjective.

Words near inburnt in the dictionary

  1. inbuilds
  2. inbuilt
  3. inburn
  4. inburning
  5. inburns
  6. inburnt
  7. inburst
  8. inbursting
  9. inburstings
  10. inbursts
  11. inby

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