Antonyms for acquiredac·quired

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1. acquired

   Antonyms:
   indigenous, innate, natal, native, natural, original

   Synonyms:
   alien, alien, artificial, assumed, foreign, unnatural

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1. acquiredadjective

   gotten through environmental forces

   "acquired characteristics (such as a suntan or a broken nose) cannot be passed on"

   Antonyms:
   inheritable, heritable

How to use acquired in a sentence?

1. Saadi, On the Duties of Society:

   He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed.

2. Oprah Winfrey:

   The role that she's taken on it's very austere, it's very sort of serious and I think there's a great weight that she has ... acquired through that and she takes it very seriously, i think it was the last moment probably that she could reflect sort of the other side to her ... the joy and the human within her.

3. Pieter Wezeman:

   Russia has tried hard in the past 10 to 15 years to get into the large Saudi arms market, but it has not been very successful. Saudi Arabia has acquired Russian rifles and may have bought some other items, but such deals have been very small, china has made some more substantial inroads into the Saudi arms market, in particular selling armed drones.

4. Jeffrey Duchin:

   We believe that these are cases of community acquired transmission.

5. Bryce Langford:

   The assets that theyve acquired down there are tremendous, and to have to up and leave from one day to the next and leave all that behind, theres definitely a lot of sad people here.

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