Thursday, November 6, 2014

Word of the Day: INHERENT

in·her·ent

adjective \in-ˈhir-ənt, -ˈher-\
: belonging to the basic nature of someone or something

Examples of INHERENT

  1. He has an inherent sense of fair play.
  2. <an inherent concept of justice>
  3. It is one more proof that our world has lost the kind of exquisite sensibility displayed by John Milton when he came up with his definition of poetry. He first wrote simple, sensual, and passionate, but he was bothered by the grossness inherent in sensual, and so he invented the word sensuous. —Florence King, National Review, 24 Sept. 2007
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