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Definition of ingrained in English: ingrained(also engrained) adjective ɪnˈɡreɪndɪnˈɡreɪnd 1(of a habit, belief, or attitude) firmly fixed or established; difficult to change. his deeply ingrained Catholic convictions Example sentencesExamples - It also suggests ways for teachers to deal with any ingrained attitudes amongst pupils, through role plays and discussion groups.
- The belief in a positive attitude is so ingrained in American thinking.
- So the only thing keeping the reporters in line is their ingrained habit of deference towards a wartime president.
- Materialism begins to fade and a newly awakened spirituality loosens the grip of ingrained beliefs and ideology.
- None of these things are terrible, of course, but they do speak of certain ingrained attitudes towards women.
- As I say, this has gone on for about three weeks and, please God, the two actions are now ingrained habits.
- Having conducted interviews with friends from her former life, I have established that it is in large part a matter of ingrained habit.
- The major difficulty you face is the ingrained belief that there are only two viable political parties in existence.
- In their eyes, nothing less than a cultural revolution was needed to purge the Chinese people of some of their most ingrained habits and cherished values.
- Letters were an addiction; memorialising the past an ingrained habit.
- Committee members said ministers were not doing enough to persuade people to use less fuel and must be prepared to use tax to change ingrained habits.
- Now at nearly 21 the habit is too ingrained to break, if asked I say nothing, I would rather people did not waste their money on me.
- However, I believe that a visit by a town dweller to a game fair would challenge ingrained attitudes.
- There are few things more firmly ingrained than one's belief system.
- As with America's obsession with handguns, it will take more than a few high school pupil massacres to shift the ingrained attitudes of this blinkered lobby.
- The magic is in the detail of his observation, revealing more about ingrained attitudes with a sentence than a volume of social studies.
- Widows and widowers aren't baggage-free either, and even those stalwarts who have remained single for half a lifetime will be carrying armfuls of ingrained habits and cherished routines.
- I have not yet stopped buying the paper, as I simply find it too hard to break such an ingrained habit, but each morning I spend a little longer in the newsagent's before picking it up.
- It was just that when it came to getting around the city, even to the local paper shop, he had one simple, ingrained habit - reach for the car keys.
- Unfortunately, we sometimes hear of neurotic behaviors and ingrained habits such as feather-picking activities being prompted by sheer boredom.
Synonyms entrenched, established, fixed, implanted, deep-rooted, rooted, deep-seated, settled, firm, unshakeable, ineradicable, driven in inveterate, dyed-in-the-wool, abiding, enduring, stubborn, unfading inbred, instinctive, intrinsic, gut 2(of dirt or a stain) deeply embedded and thus difficult to remove. the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork Example sentencesExamples - The models usually last around three scenes before ingrained dirt and cracked limbs make them rather unphotogenic.
- The leather of the binding was badly scuffed in places and the edges of the pages were blackened with ingrained dust.
- He sat there surrounded by filth - thick ingrained dirt.
- I am in my old black jeans and a dark green sweatshirt, both engrained with dirt from buses and warehouses, pubs and bedsits.
- He moved quietly up the stained stone stoop; impressions of dead leaves and ingrained dirt gave the granite stairway a pepper-like color.
- Internal stains in teeth, for example tetracycline stains, are extremely resistant to bleaching because the stain is so deeply ingrained in the teeth.
- Neither is leaving furniture or fittings so ingrained with dirt and dust that they are never quite the same again and, oh yes, leaving the back yard full of rubble that the dustmen will refuse to take away.
- As she passed the bundle to him, the tall man raised her hand, her rough hand with its ingrained dirt and torn nails, to his lips and kissed it gravely, his blue eyes dancing.
- Paint was peeling, floors had ingrained dirt, and all of the telephone rooms - very important for detainees' contact with the outside world - were in a disgraceful state.
Synonyms ground-in, fixed, infixed, planted, implanted, embedded permanent, indelible, ineradicable, ineffaceable, inexpungible
Rhymes self-contained, self-restrained, self-sustained, unascertained, unconstrained, undertrained, undrained, unexplained, unfeigned, unrestrained, unstained, unstrained, unsustained, untrained Definition of ingrained in US English: ingrained(also engrained) adjectiveinˈɡrāndɪnˈɡreɪnd 1(of a habit, belief, or attitude) firmly fixed or established; difficult to change. his deeply ingrained Catholic convictions Example sentencesExamples - The belief in a positive attitude is so ingrained in American thinking.
- The magic is in the detail of his observation, revealing more about ingrained attitudes with a sentence than a volume of social studies.
- The major difficulty you face is the ingrained belief that there are only two viable political parties in existence.
- Letters were an addiction; memorialising the past an ingrained habit.
- In their eyes, nothing less than a cultural revolution was needed to purge the Chinese people of some of their most ingrained habits and cherished values.
- Now at nearly 21 the habit is too ingrained to break, if asked I say nothing, I would rather people did not waste their money on me.
- However, I believe that a visit by a town dweller to a game fair would challenge ingrained attitudes.
- Widows and widowers aren't baggage-free either, and even those stalwarts who have remained single for half a lifetime will be carrying armfuls of ingrained habits and cherished routines.
- Committee members said ministers were not doing enough to persuade people to use less fuel and must be prepared to use tax to change ingrained habits.
- I have not yet stopped buying the paper, as I simply find it too hard to break such an ingrained habit, but each morning I spend a little longer in the newsagent's before picking it up.
- There are few things more firmly ingrained than one's belief system.
- As with America's obsession with handguns, it will take more than a few high school pupil massacres to shift the ingrained attitudes of this blinkered lobby.
- So the only thing keeping the reporters in line is their ingrained habit of deference towards a wartime president.
- Materialism begins to fade and a newly awakened spirituality loosens the grip of ingrained beliefs and ideology.
- None of these things are terrible, of course, but they do speak of certain ingrained attitudes towards women.
- It was just that when it came to getting around the city, even to the local paper shop, he had one simple, ingrained habit - reach for the car keys.
- Unfortunately, we sometimes hear of neurotic behaviors and ingrained habits such as feather-picking activities being prompted by sheer boredom.
- It also suggests ways for teachers to deal with any ingrained attitudes amongst pupils, through role plays and discussion groups.
- As I say, this has gone on for about three weeks and, please God, the two actions are now ingrained habits.
- Having conducted interviews with friends from her former life, I have established that it is in large part a matter of ingrained habit.
Synonyms entrenched, established, fixed, implanted, deep-rooted, rooted, deep-seated, settled, firm, unshakeable, ineradicable, driven in 2(of dirt or a stain) deeply embedded and thus difficult to remove. the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork Example sentencesExamples - Paint was peeling, floors had ingrained dirt, and all of the telephone rooms - very important for detainees' contact with the outside world - were in a disgraceful state.
- The leather of the binding was badly scuffed in places and the edges of the pages were blackened with ingrained dust.
- I am in my old black jeans and a dark green sweatshirt, both engrained with dirt from buses and warehouses, pubs and bedsits.
- As she passed the bundle to him, the tall man raised her hand, her rough hand with its ingrained dirt and torn nails, to his lips and kissed it gravely, his blue eyes dancing.
- He moved quietly up the stained stone stoop; impressions of dead leaves and ingrained dirt gave the granite stairway a pepper-like color.
- The models usually last around three scenes before ingrained dirt and cracked limbs make them rather unphotogenic.
- He sat there surrounded by filth - thick ingrained dirt.
- Internal stains in teeth, for example tetracycline stains, are extremely resistant to bleaching because the stain is so deeply ingrained in the teeth.
- Neither is leaving furniture or fittings so ingrained with dirt and dust that they are never quite the same again and, oh yes, leaving the back yard full of rubble that the dustmen will refuse to take away.
Synonyms ground-in, fixed, infixed, planted, implanted, embedded
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