congenital

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: con=gen=i=tal

CIDE DICTIONARY

congenital, a. [From Congenite.].

 Existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutional; natural; as, a congenital deformity; a congenital liar. See Connate and native.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

congenital, adj.
1 (esp. of a disease, defect, etc.) existing from birth.
2 that is (or as if) such from birth (a congenital liar).

Derivative

congenitally adv.

Etymology

L congenitus (as com-, genitus past part. of gigno beget)

THESAURUS

congenital

absolute, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, atavistic, bodily, born, broad-based, clean, clear, coeval, comprehensive, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, consummate, deep-dyed, deep-seated, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, essential, exhaustive, genetic, hereditary, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, indwelling, ingrained, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, intensive, intrinsic, native, native to, natural, natural to, omnibus, omnipresent, organic, out-and-out, outright, perfect, pervasive, physical, plain, plumb, primal, pure, radical, regular, sheer, straight, sweeping, temperamental, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, ubiquitous, unacquired, unconditional, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted, utter, veritable, wholesale

ROGET THESAURUS

congenital

Intrinsicality

N intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion, subjectiveness, ego, egohood, essence, noumenon, essentialness, essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul, important part, principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis, diathesis, habit, temper, temperament, spirit, humor, grain, disposition, endowment, capacity, capability, moods, declensions, features, aspects, peculiarities, idiosyncrasy, oddity, idiocrasy, diagnostics, derived from within, subjective, intrinsic, intrinsical, fundamental, normal, implanted, inherent, essential, natural, innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought, coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic, radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent, congenital, congenite, connate, running in the blood, ingenerate, ingenite, indigenous, in the grain, bred in the bone, instinctive, inward, internal, to the manner born, virtual, characteristic, invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed, intrinsically, at bottom, in the main, in effect, practically, virtually, substantially, au fond, fairly, character is higher than intellect, come give us a taste of your quality, magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna, non numero haec judicantur sed pondere, vital spark of heavenly flame.

Affections

N affections, affect, character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone, temper, temperament, diathesis, idiosyncrasy, cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul, predilection, turn, natural turn of mind, bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency, vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle, sympathy, soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man, heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood, heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis, secret and inmost recesses of the heart, cockles of one's heart, inmost heart, inmost soul, backbone, passion, pervading spirit, ruling passion, master passion, furore, fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul, energy, fervor, fire, force, affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast, attempered, tempered, framed, predisposed, prone, inclined, having a bias, tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with, inborn, inbred, ingrained, deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate, pathoscopic, congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain, affective, in one's heart, at heart, heart and soul, affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffe.