Ingrained

Word INGRAINED
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Definitions and meanings of "Ingrained"

What do we mean by ingrained?

Firmly established, as by long conditioning; deep-seated. adjective

Worked deeply into the texture or fiber. adjective

Being an element; present in the essence of a thing adjective

Fixed, established adjective

Simple past tense and past participle of ingrain. verb

(used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held adjective

To dye with a fast or lasting colour.

To make (something) deeply part of something else.

Another word for idiot, or backwards. Urban Dictionary

POUR YOUR HEART INTO IT This first definition implicit SEC ACTS. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Ingrained

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The word "ingrained" in example sentences

I've always wondered if there is something genetically inherent in a redhead to be like this, or whether it's a habit ingrained from a lifetime of people just expecting that one will pop off at any given moment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Since France is an old country, with a certain ingrained skepticism toward change, necessary reforms take more time to be accepted. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So firmly ingrained is the combat mentality that neither party believes the opposing candidate is capable of "winning" the election — only that its own candidate or campaign is capable of losing it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I stooped down and picked up the paper and would you believe it – so ingrained is my Parisian sense of comme il faut – I murmured "pardon" before I read it. ❋ Unknown (1920)

But football comes with a warning label ingrained in every parent's worrisome mind. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It’s something I had ingrained from a really young age as my grandmother had a fantastic sense of the ridiculous which she passed on to my mother and my aunt as well as to me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Such assumptions are ingrained, which is why I advised Republicans not to hold their collective breath “courting the black vote.” ❋ Nathaniel Livingston (2006)

But it was a somewhat difficult task to overcome Karl's misgivings about himself, owing to the idea ingrained in his mind that he never could become a practical musician. ❋ Richard Wagner (1848)

Alcatraz is a term deeply ingrained in our cultural consciousness as a source of mystery and curiosity, so it seems fitting that J.J. Abrams and... ❋ Jason Hughes (2012)

There was always the idea ingrained in you by the Sisters of St. Joseph, by the parochial schools, that you mustn't get too big for your britches . . . ❋ Unknown (2011)

We recall the ingrained culture of fragmentation we have to overcome.

He felt the language lacked an essential component, a "spiritual" side even, having had the notion ingrained in his every mode of thought since he heard his first word. ❋ Unknown (1983)

Why is it such as ingrained assumption that we can all eat dairy products when there are so many people who are intolerant to it? ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Because we still have kind of ingrained in our society this sort of stadium, collective way of watching product, be it a sporting event, a concert, a play, a movie, you name it,” Mr. Glickman argues. ❋ William Triplett (2009)

Showing me around the brightly colored rooms of the center, now an accredited early childhood learning facility, she lamented the fact that the kind of ingrained poverty she deals with on a daily basis is mostly invisible to middle-class America. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rather a recognition that in ANY revolution there are wrongs that must be righted, assumptions that must be revised and corrected and general acceptances that must be countered ... such as ingrained corruption at every level of Venezuela's society! ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Michael] is an ingrain for [forgetting] his [paper]. ❋ Ingrain99 (2016)

You know [SExISM IS INGRAINED] when you [GRAB HER BY THE PUSSY] as perfect FRATERNITY BROTHERHOOD. [I am horny] as [SEXISM IS INGRAINED] and I'LL SUCK YOUR DICK AND I'LL SUCK YOUR ASS thank you , next. ❋ DEFINITIVE PEDOPHILE (2021)

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