Adverb
(comparative more inherently, superlative most inherently)
- In an inherent way; naturally, innately, unavoidably.
Origin
inherent + -ly
inherently
adverb
Inherently is defined as something that is built-in or a part of the makeup of a person or thing.
When a child behaves very badly all the time and his parents just assume that he was wired that way, this is an example of a child whose behavior would be described as inherently bad.
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Sentence Examples
- For many of the same reasons as monarchies, dictatorships are inherently warlike.
- Monarchy is not inherently bad, and there have been fine kings and queens in history.
- Egypt is known to have laid claim to the southern half of Palestine from early times, and consequently the extension of the name of Egypt beyond the limits of Egypt and of the Sinaitic peninsula, is inherently probable.
- But Reid soon came to see that such work was inherently false, painted as the picture was day after day under varying conditions of light and shade.
- He felt that change is the essential fact of experience and pointed out that any merely physical explanation of plurality is inherently impossible.
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Words near inherently in the dictionary
- inherently
- inherent
- inherent power
- inherent-power