Acquired

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or relating to a disease, condition, or characteristic that is not congenital but develops after birth.
  • adj. Resulting from exposure to something, such as an antigen or antibiotic.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of acquire.
  • adj. Developed postfetally; not congenital.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. gotten through environmental forces. Contrasted with inherited.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. gotten through environmental forces
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    inherited    innate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    nurtural    learned    adopted    cultivated    affected   
    Verb Stem
    acquire   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    admired    byard    conspired    desired    fired    hired    inquired    inspired    rehired    required