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ingrained

[in-greynd, in-greynd]

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adjective

firmly fixed; deep-rooted; inveterate: ingrained superstition.

wrought into or through the grain or fiber.

Also, engrained.

Origin:
1590–1600; ingrain + -ed²

Related forms

in·grain·ed·ly

[in-grey-nid-lee, -greynd-] , adverb

in·grain·ed·ness, noun

un·in·grained, adjective

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Example Sentences

His elegance and diplomatic skills were ingrained early.

The urban ideal seems so well ingrained in academic culture.

The trouble is that the downbeat narrative is deeply ingrained.

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His elegance and diplomatic skills were ingrained early.

The urban ideal seems so well ingrained in academic culture.

The trouble is that the downbeat narrative is deeply ingrained.

Hopefully that will get ingrained into the minds of all dog owners.

For one, some noted that color perception is probably too biologically ingrained to show influence from language.

Our city is bedeviled by such ingrained hierarchies.

Bill's problem with his employer's oversight was not so much ego, as a matter of his deeply ingrained sense of fairness.

Road-trippers with an ingrained reluctance to ask for directions may soon have a face-saving alternative.

At the root of it all, however, was-and still is-a deeply ingrained flaw in the decision-making process.

Among the challenges: changing ingrained habits that led to the weight gain.

The power that religion has to transform a society was deeply ingrained in me.

There are many elements of popular culture that so ingrained in our society that they require no explanation.

It has been ingrained in our psyche that public services are useless at best.

Such deeply ingrained scepticism did wane, briefly, a few years ago.

It's interesting to think about where this ingrained predisposition is leading us.

Algorithms have become so ingrained in our financial system that the markets could not operate without them.

Partisan politics is pretty much ingrained in the theater, which is over all a decidedly left-of-center enterprise.

But you don't change corruption that deep and that ingrained in a culture from the outside.

In this view, what you might call the philosopher's view, each of us has certain ingrained character traits.

The problems of many women in the workforce are far more ingrained and harder to deal with.

Today, the celebration of youth is completely ingrained in our culture, and many men seem determined not to grow up at all.

Those expectations have been ingrained since before birth.

Many of these are ingrained socio-economic realities.

The many facets of his character, his humor and his wit are now ingrained in all of us.

But the impulse to hunt a standard model is ingrained in academia.

Overcoming an ingrained perception that one is intellectually defective can be a requisite step in this process.

Those who see the problem chiefly as a result of ingrained poverty, disadvantage and discrimination take a different stance.

There is irony to the ingrained pursuit of national interest in an increasingly integrated world economy.

Immigration zealotry is sending the country into a world of ingrained suspicion, routine discrimination and economic disruption.

He says that music is ingrained in our auditory, cognitive and motor functions.

People have an ingrained need to have meaning and relevance.

Drinking with colleagues in bars after work to wind down from the day's stresses is an ingrained part of the police.

It seems to be more ingrained in evolutionary history.

Owning your music is the ingrained way we're conditioned to the market, not renting.

On the run, they are forced to examine their ingrained victim status and take responsibility for their own lives.

Hoping to get away with doing the miminum possible seems ingrained in airline culture.

It's fun to imagine something so ingrained and fundamental to the web as vertical scrolling might be challenged.

Feeding their grievances is an ingrained resentment of foreigners that verges on xenophobia.

But, they say, other evidence is too strong to let a prank kill something that has become ingrained in the culture.

Young so animated as he explained how deeply ingrained the ink had become in the fibers and how complicated was.

And yet contradictory terms have become ingrained in the vernacular of economists.

Often the two ingrained tendencies are at odds, not blending but clashing.

Older workers have ingrained methodologies of work and productivity which have clearly been proven obsolete.

Remakes, according to a deeply ingrained critical convention, are inevitably inferior to the original films.

The problem remains that corruption is such ancient tradition that is deeply ingrained in the caste system.

It may be, the researchers found, that smoking is so ingrained within the culture that many smokers do not think they can quit.

It does somewhat amaze me how ingrained opposition to nuclear power is in parts of the environmental movement.

Medical care, she found, is strongly influenced by cultural norms and values ingrained over hundreds of years.

The problems they are confronting are deeply ingrained in a culture that has been mainly governed by tribal law.

Sorenson echoes a sentiment that remains firmly ingrained in our culture.

His new habits seem so ingrained that slacking off doesn't appear to be a problem.

But one myth is so deeply ingrained that millions of people waste money on it every year.

The tendency to keep things hidden had been ingrained in him from an early age.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to implant or fix deeply and firmly, as in the nature or mind.

adjective

ingrained; firmly fixed.

(of fiber or yarn) dyed in a raw state, before being woven or knitted.

made of fiber or yarn so dyed: ingrain fabric.

(of carpets) made of ingrain yarn and so woven as to show a different pattern on each side; reversible.

noun

yarn, wool, etc., dyed before manufacture.

an ingrain carpet.

Also, engrain (for defs. 1, 2).

Origin:
1760–70; orig. phrase (dyed) in grain (i.e., with kermes)

Synonyms
1. infuse, inculcate, imbue.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

ingrained or engrained (ɪnˈɡreɪnd)

—*adj*
1.	deeply impressed or instilled: his fears are deeply ingrained
2.	(prenominal) complete or inveterate; utter: an ingrained fool
3.	(esp of dirt) worked into or through the fibre, grain, pores, etc

engrained or engrained

—*adj*

ingrainedly or engrained

—*adv*

engrainedly or engrained

—*adv*

in'grainedness or engrained

—n

en'grainedness or engrained

—n

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Word Origin & History

ingrain

1766, see engrain. Fig. use, of qualities, habits, etc., attested from 1851 (in ingrained).

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