Definition of Ingrained

1. Adjective. (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held. "A deeply planted need"


Definition of Ingrained

1. Adjective. Being an element; present in the essence of a thing ¹

2. Adjective. Fixed, established ¹

3. Verb. (past of ingrain) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ingrained

1. ingrain [v] - See also: ingrain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ingrained

ingracious
ingraff
ingraffed
ingraffing
ingraffs
ingraft
ingrafted
ingrafter
ingrafters
ingrafting
ingraftment
ingraftments
ingrafts
ingrain
ingrain wallpaper
ingrained (current term)
ingrainedly
ingraining
ingrains
ingram
ingrapple
ingrappled
ingrapples
ingrappling
ingrate
ingrateful
ingrately
ingrates
ingratiate
ingratiated

Literary usage of Ingrained

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"But, in proportion as men have passed from anarchy to social organization, and in proportion as civilization has grown in worth, these deeply ingrained ..."

2. Mahometanism Unveiled: An Inquiry, in which that Arch-heresy, Its Diffusion by Charles Forster (1829)
"The tenacity of national manners ingrained in the character of the Saracens, affords an assurance stronger than any reasonings, that the propagation of ..."

3. The School World (1905)
"long-ingrained habit) wrote his name at the top of the paper slip, and no notice was given, so that no opportunity was given for any preconcerted action. a ..."

4. The Student's Common-place Book: A Cyclopedia of Illustration and Fact by Henry J. Fox (1876)
"There are certain vices which seem to indicate a criminality so ingrained, or at least so inveterate, that mercy is, as it were, choked in the deadly ..."

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