inherent
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity
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Sense 2 adjective
in the nature of something though not readily apparent
shortcomings inherent in our approach
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | inherence |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | inhere |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | intrinsic |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | inhere |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | implicit |