Ingrained
adjective
Something that is deeply rooted or established.
His pessimistic attitude is so ingrained that nothing can change it.
Often appears as...
- deeply ingrained
- ingrained habit
adjective
Having an long-lasting pattern or habit that is unlikely to change.
Education can be the tool to erase ingrained prejudice.
Often appears as...
- ingrained behavior
- ingrained belief
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Academic
adjective
Something that is deeply rooted or established.
His pessimistic attitude is so ingrained that nothing can change it.
Often appears as...
- deeply ingrained
- ingrained habit
adjective
Having an long-lasting pattern or habit that is unlikely to change.
Education can be the tool to erase ingrained prejudice.
Often appears as...
- ingrained behavior
- ingrained belief
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Persistence
Ingrained can describe beliefs or customs persisting through generations within a culture.
His respect for elders was ingrained through his family's traditions.
Pro Tip 2/3Resistant to Change
Use 'ingrained' for habits or attitudes that are difficult to alter or remove.
Her ingrained frugality made her cautious with investments.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
'Ingrained' doesn't only refer to negative traits; it can be positive or neutral.
His punctuality is an ingrained quality appreciated by his colleagues.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Persistence
Ingrained can describe beliefs or customs persisting through generations within a culture.
His respect for elders was ingrained through his family's traditions.
Pro Tip 2/3Resistant to Change
Use 'ingrained' for habits or attitudes that are difficult to alter or remove.
Her ingrained frugality made her cautious with investments.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
'Ingrained' doesn't only refer to negative traits; it can be positive or neutral.
His punctuality is an ingrained quality appreciated by his colleagues.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Persistence
Ingrained can describe beliefs or customs persisting through generations within a culture.
His respect for elders was ingrained through his family's traditions.
Pro Tip 2/3Resistant to Change
Use 'ingrained' for habits or attitudes that are difficult to alter or remove.
Her ingrained frugality made her cautious with investments.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
'Ingrained' doesn't only refer to negative traits; it can be positive or neutral.
His punctuality is an ingrained quality appreciated by his colleagues.
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How I climbed a...
But this photo shows my preferred method of rehearsing the moves. I'm on the summit, about to rappel down the face with over a thousand feet of rope to spend the day practicing. Once I found sequences that felt secure and repeatable, I had to memorize them. I had to make sure that they were so deeply ingrained within me
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Calm Down! PIPE Dog...
walked hula not even one time because he would never go with them and I had the same thing I tried to protect him and so I walked him so that was just wonderful for me to see it's easier to teach children and to teach adults you know hey because they don't have this bad habit so ingrained and them I just need
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How to build your...
or how a student was particularly cruel to them. And then some kind of opt out of thinking of themselves as creative at that point. And I see that opting out that happens in childhood, and it moves in and becomes more ingrained, even, by the time you get to adult life.
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A radical plan to end...
And that's what that landfill looks like, ladies and gentlemen, and it's solid oil and gas. So there's huge value potentially locked up in there that the world's ragpickers would, if they could, make a living from. But why can't they? Because we have ingrained in us
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Why you think you're...
and your actions are stemming from these deeply ingrained reflexes, reflexes rooted in a need to protect yourself and your side and to defeat the enemy. So now, I'd like you to imagine playing a very different role, that of the scout.
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Why you don't need 8...
One myth that really bugs me is the idea that you need eight glasses of water a day. Honestly, it's pretty shocking how ingrained it is. You hear it on TV, you see it in articles. But like I said, it's nonsense. For the most part,
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Greeting the world in...
In highlighting this simple evidence of ingrained behavior, we can create the necessary shift in thinking needed to incorporate flexibility and open-mindedness in us all when looking at the globalization of the world.
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How science fiction can...
In works that often combine entertainment and social commentary, we are invited to suspend our disbelief and consider the consequences of radical shifts in familiar and deeply engrained institutions. In this sense,
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Baby Elephant Struggles...
migration path to distant food and water these elephants are simply trying to get beyond the farms using an age-old route deeply ingrained in their memory which is now blocked by expanding human settlement
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Prohibition criminalizes...
Paul was not a drug dealer in the usual sense he was an activist he believed that drug use was like prostitution and ingrained aspect of any advanced culture that could never be wiped out by
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How I climbed a...
But this photo shows my preferred method of rehearsing the moves. I'm on the summit, about to rappel down the face with over a thousand feet of rope to spend the day practicing. Once I found sequences that felt secure and repeatable, I had to memorize them. I had to make sure that they were so deeply ingrained within me
Video examples
Calm Down! PIPE Dog...
walked hula not even one time because he would never go with them and I had the same thing I tried to protect him and so I walked him so that was just wonderful for me to see it's easier to teach children and to teach adults you know hey because they don't have this bad habit so ingrained and them I just need
Video examples
How to build your...
or how a student was particularly cruel to them. And then some kind of opt out of thinking of themselves as creative at that point. And I see that opting out that happens in childhood, and it moves in and becomes more ingrained, even, by the time you get to adult life.
Video examples
A radical plan to end...
And that's what that landfill looks like, ladies and gentlemen, and it's solid oil and gas. So there's huge value potentially locked up in there that the world's ragpickers would, if they could, make a living from. But why can't they? Because we have ingrained in us
Video examples
Why you think you're...
and your actions are stemming from these deeply ingrained reflexes, reflexes rooted in a need to protect yourself and your side and to defeat the enemy. So now, I'd like you to imagine playing a very different role, that of the scout.
Video examples
Why you don't need 8...
One myth that really bugs me is the idea that you need eight glasses of water a day. Honestly, it's pretty shocking how ingrained it is. You hear it on TV, you see it in articles. But like I said, it's nonsense. For the most part,
Video examples
Greeting the world in...
In highlighting this simple evidence of ingrained behavior, we can create the necessary shift in thinking needed to incorporate flexibility and open-mindedness in us all when looking at the globalization of the world.
Video examples
How science fiction can...
In works that often combine entertainment and social commentary, we are invited to suspend our disbelief and consider the consequences of radical shifts in familiar and deeply engrained institutions. In this sense,
Video examples
Baby Elephant Struggles...
migration path to distant food and water these elephants are simply trying to get beyond the farms using an age-old route deeply ingrained in their memory which is now blocked by expanding human settlement
Video examples
Prohibition criminalizes...
Paul was not a drug dealer in the usual sense he was an activist he believed that drug use was like prostitution and ingrained aspect of any advanced culture that could never be wiped out by
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Jude Law
British Actor
I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.
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Hod Lipson
American Scientist
The only way to make something cheaply today is to have it mass-produced. For example, you wear the same shoes as everyone else. If you had a fabber, you could custom-make shoes that perfectly fit your feet. Three-dimensional printing will help us move away from the mass consumption that is so deeply ingrained in our culture.
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Sara Bareilles
American Musician
With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with writing pop music. The main point is to tell the story. You just have to make sure the character's voice is strong and the storytelling is strong.
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Prince Charles
English Royalty
I have often thought that one of the less attractive traits of various professional bodies and institutions is the deeply ingrained suspicion and outright hostility which can exist towards anything unorthodox or unconventional.
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Gary Ryan Blair
American Businessman
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
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Janis Ian
American Musician
Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.
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Shiv Nadar
Indian Businessman
India's connection with philanthropy didn't begin with western influences. The connection with philanthropy is age-old and ingrained in our value systems.
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Heather Bresch
American Businesswoman
Political service is important because it's about helping others help themselves. That was engrained in me from a young child.
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Frank Dukes
Canadian Producer
I grew up on hip-hop and crate-digging and those sensibilities are deeply ingrained in me.
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Nicola Sturgeon
Scottish Politician
The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.
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Jude Law
British Actor
I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.
Quote examples
Hod Lipson
American Scientist
The only way to make something cheaply today is to have it mass-produced. For example, you wear the same shoes as everyone else. If you had a fabber, you could custom-make shoes that perfectly fit your feet. Three-dimensional printing will help us move away from the mass consumption that is so deeply ingrained in our culture.
Quote examples
Sara Bareilles
American Musician
With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with writing pop music. The main point is to tell the story. You just have to make sure the character's voice is strong and the storytelling is strong.
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Prince Charles
English Royalty
I have often thought that one of the less attractive traits of various professional bodies and institutions is the deeply ingrained suspicion and outright hostility which can exist towards anything unorthodox or unconventional.
Quote examples
Gary Ryan Blair
American Businessman
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Quote examples
Janis Ian
American Musician
Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.
Quote examples
Shiv Nadar
Indian Businessman
India's connection with philanthropy didn't begin with western influences. The connection with philanthropy is age-old and ingrained in our value systems.
Quote examples
Heather Bresch
American Businesswoman
Political service is important because it's about helping others help themselves. That was engrained in me from a young child.
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Frank Dukes
Canadian Producer
I grew up on hip-hop and crate-digging and those sensibilities are deeply ingrained in me.
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Nicola Sturgeon
Scottish Politician
The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.
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