Both Uses of
innate
in
Catch-22
- Major Major had never played basketball or any other game before, but his great, bobbing height and rapturous enthusiasm helped make up for his innate clumsiness and lack of experience.†
Chpt 9 *
- Colonel Cathcart felt perceptive enough to realize that visible signals of recognition were never necessary between sophisticated, self-assured people like himself and General Peckem who could warm to each other from a distance with innate mutual understanding.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(innate) of a quality: present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired