Word Meanings - INTRINSIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Included wholly within an organ or limb, as certain groups of muscles; -- opposed to extrinsic. Intrinsic energy of a body , the work it can do in virtue of its actual condition, without any supply of energy from without. -- Intrinsic equation of

Additional info about word: INTRINSIC

Included wholly within an organ or limb, as certain groups of muscles; -- opposed to extrinsic. Intrinsic energy of a body , the work it can do in virtue of its actual condition, without any supply of energy from without. -- Intrinsic equation of a curve , the equation which expresses the relation which the length of a curve, measured from a given point of it, to a movable point, has to the angle which the tangent to the curve at the movable point makes with a fixed line. -- Intrinsic value. See the Note under Value, n. Syn. -- Inherent; innate; natural; real; genuine. (more info) within + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F. 1. Inward; internal; hence, true; genuine; real; essential; inherent; not merely apparent or accidental; -- opposed to extrinsic; as, the intrinsic value of gold or silver; the intrinsic merit of an action; the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person. He was better qualified than they to estimate justly the intrinsic value of Grecian philosophy and refinement. I. Taylor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTRINSIC)

• Immanent
• Inherent
• innate
• subjective
• indwelling
• internal
• intrinsic
• congenital
• ingrained
• natural
• implicit
• Innate
• imminent
• inborn
• inbred
• Natural
• Intrinsic
• eventual
• regular
• normal
• cosmical
• true
• probable
• consistent
• spontaneous
• unless
• original

Related words: (words related to INTRINSIC)

• INTRINSICAL
  1. Intrinsic. 2. Intimate; closely familiar. Sir H. Wotton.
• SPONTANEOUS
  1. Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion. 2. Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• INGRAIN
  1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• INBORN
  Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions. Cowper. Syn. -- Innate; inherent; natural.
• IMPLICITNESS
  State or quality of being implicit.
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• IMPLICITY
  Implicitness. Cotgrave.
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• INNATE
  Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive. There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common
• INBRED
  Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth. "Inbred sentiments." Burke.
• INNATENESS
  The quality of being innate.
• CONGENITALLY
  In a congenital manner.
• IMMINENT
  1. Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril. "In danger imminent." Spenser. 2. Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous. Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Shak.
• INTERNALLY
  1. Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface. 2. Hence: Mentally; spiritually. Jer. Taylor.
• PROBABLE
  1. Capable of being proved. 2. Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely. That is accounted probable which has better arguments producible for it than
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• PARIPINNATE
  Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.
• IMPARIPINNATE
  Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.
• SUBNORMAL
  That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.