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Deep-rooted
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ingrained
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held; "deep-rooted prejudice"; "deep-seated differences of opinion"; "implanted convictions"; "ingrained habits of a lifetime"; "a deeply planted need" [syn: deep-rooted , deep-seated ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES ingrained dirt (= under the surface of something and difficult to clean off ) ▪ We had to wash the walls to remove the ingrained dirt. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB deeply ▪ The continuing problems of Northern ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ingrain \In"grain`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ingrained ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ingraining .] [Written also engrain.] To dye with or in grain or kermes. To dye in the grain, or before manufacture. To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Being an element; present in the essence of a thing 2 fixed, established v (en-past of: ingrain )
Usage examples of ingrained.
And young Hakat is of the Cherkess, a people renowned for their ingrained honesty.
Ashe and Grunthor, determining that to be too long, forwent any troop accompaniment, preferring to rely on their natural or ingrained abilities to go without sleep for extended periods and the well-supplied mail route along the trans-Orlandan thoroughfare, where fresh horses could be had every eighty leagues.
Social Democrats, who were mostly well-meaning trade-unionists with the same habit of bowing to old, established authority which was ingrained in Germans of other classes, could not bring themselves to do.
American life, and one of the most deeply ingrained instincts in the Jacksonian world.
Fifteen years in the Chinese army, most of those as part of a tank crew, had ingrained in him an instinctive longing for maneuverability that was the key to survival in land warfare.
Had the scandals and investigations so defined and crippled the president, ingrained a sense of desperate struggle and blind determination, that he had lost his way?
Volkov was surprised at the reaction until he remembered that the saur method of hunting, megayears established and ingrained, was to stampede herds of herbivorous dinosaurs off cliffs.
He was going to save the country, save the world, in spite of its slavish ingrained genuflection to oversweetened dreck.
Being of Aztecan descent, he had a culturally ingrained understanding of just how nasty a power Huitzilopochtli was.
Being of Aztecan descent, he had a culturally ingrained understanding of just how nasty a power Huitz ilopochtii was.
Pandering to a spoiled citizenry had become so ingrained, it remained in place even as buildings and complacencies crumbled.
It's observed that self-pity and depression are dependencies that (probably) become ingrained early in life - and they are serious dependencies.
It is these durational expectancies, different in each society but learned early and deeply ingrained, that are shaken up when the pace of life is altered.
His father was a firm believer in God and country, and though Mingolla understood the futility of adhering to any moral code in light of the insanity around him, he had found that something of his father’s tenets had been ingrained in him: He would never be able to desert as Baylor kept insisting.
The rhythm of cardiopulmonary resuscitation was so deeply ingrained in her that she followed it automatically: fifteen firm heels of her hands to his sternum.