ingrained
English
Etymology
ingrain + -ed
Adjective
ingrained (comparative more ingrained, superlative most ingrained)
- Being an element; present in the essence of a thing
- 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):
- But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
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- Fixed, established
Synonyms
- (in the essence of a thing): inherent; See also Thesaurus:intrinsic
- (fixed, established): bred-in-the-bone, radicated; See also Thesaurus:inveterate
Translations
in the essence of a thing; being an element
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fixed, established
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Verb
ingrained
- simple past tense and past participle of ingrain
Anagrams
- deraining, indearing, reading in