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Ingrained

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Adjective

1. deep-rooted, deep-seated, implanted, ingrained, planted

(used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held

Example Sentences:
'deep-rooted prejudice'
'deep-seated differences of opinion'
'implanted convictions'
'ingrained habits of a lifetime'
'a deeply planted need'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ingrained

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adjective
1. 
deeply impressed or instilled
his fears are deeply ingrained
2. (prenominal)
complete or inveterate; utter
an ingrained fool
3. 
(esp of dirt) worked into or through the fibre, grain, pores, etc

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Ingrained

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adjective
1. 
a. 
worked into the fiber
b. 
firmly fixed or established
ingrained principles
2. 
inveterate; thoroughgoing
an ingrained liar

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ingrained

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adj.
1. Firmly established, as by long conditioning; deep-seated: ingrained prejudice; the ingrained habits of a lifetime.
2. Worked deeply into the texture or fiber: a carpet disfigured by ingrained dirt.

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