Ingrained - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ɪnˈɡreɪnd|  American pronunciation of the word ingrained
Brit.  |ɪnˈɡreɪnd|  British pronunciation of the word ingrained

adjective

- (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held (syn: deep-rooted, deep-seated, planted)
ingrained habits of a lifetime

Extra examples

These attitudes are very deeply ingrained in the culture.

...her deeply ingrained distrust of all authority...

The idea of doing our duty is deeply ingrained in most people.

...a deeply ingrained bigotry prevented her from even considering the counterarguments...

...their ingrained chauvinism has blinded them to their country's faults...

...the troubled youth seems to have an ingrained defiance to authority of any sort...

...the journalism professor has long ingrained his students with a deep respect for their chosen profession...

...the third-world privation he had witnessed forever ingrained itself upon the young doctor's memory...

...even in church we were not free from Mother's familiar reproof of our ingrained tendency to fidget in our seats...

...I simply have this ingrained aversion to the sight of bloodshed....

The sight is still ingrained in my memory.

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