different between unborn vs inborn

English

Etymology

un- +? born

Adjective

unborn (not comparable)

1. Not yet born; yet to come; future.
2. Not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
3. Existing without birth or beginning.

Synonyms

• (not born): coming; see also Thesaurus:future

Translations

Noun

unborn (countable and uncountable, plural unborns)

1. (countable) A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.
   • 2009, Catherine Playoust & Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, "The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature", in Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (eds. Vanessa R. Sasson & Jane Marie Law), Oxford University Press (2009), ?ISBN, page 176:

     Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.

2. (uncountable) Unborn offspring collectively.

   Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unborn.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n.b??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n.b??n/

Adjective

inborn (not comparable)

1. Innate, possessed by an organism at birth.
   • September 20 1995, Oliver James writing in The Guardian, From Venus and Mars

     However, a scientific study just published in American Psychologist provides strong reasons to doubt that there are many inborn differences between genders.

2. Inherited or hereditary.

Synonyms

• see also Thesaurus:innate

Derived terms

• inbornness

Translations

Anagrams

• bornin