| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Forming an essential element, as arising from the basic structure of an individual: built-in, congenital, connatural, constitutional, inborn, inbred, indigenous, indwelling, ingrained, inherent, innate, intrinsic, native, natural. See BE, NATIVE, START. 2. Of or being an irreducible element: basic, elementary, essential, fundamental, primitive, ultimate, underlying. See SURFACE.
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