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.
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

German: verwurzelt (de)

Swedish: inrotad, ingrodd (sv)

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Chinese: 根深蒂固的 (gēnshēndìgùde)
Dutch: ingeworteld
Finnish: syvään juurtunut, syöpynyt (fi)

German: angeboren, eingefleischt (1); eingewurzelt (2)
Italian: incallito (it) m, inveterato (it)
Macedonian: вроден m (vróden) (1), вкоренет m (vkórenet) (2)

Verb

ingrained

simple past tense and past participle of ingrain

Anagrams

deraining, indearing, reading in

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