Meanings
adjectiveinnative (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoletenative
His son shall make to his innative port
1614–1615, Homer, “The Fifth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC - not comparableobsoleteinnate
Origin
From innate + -ive, after native.
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Rhymes with innative
creativedativestativelativeuncreativeanticreativecastrativecollativeconstativedictativedilativeelativeequativeflativeillativeinduplicativeinflativemiscreativemutativenear-nativenon-nativeoptativeplacativeprecreative
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APA
innative. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/innative
MLA
“innative.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/innative. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “innative,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/innative.
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