ingrained

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(ĭn-grānd') pronunciation
adj.
  1. Firmly established; deep-seated: ingrained prejudice; the ingrained habits of a lifetime.
  2. Worked deeply into the texture or fiber: a carpet disfigured by ingrained dirt.


is the normal spelling for the word meaning 'deeply rooted, inveterate' or (in physical senses) 'deeply embedded'.

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  1. Firmly established by long standing: confirmed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, entrenched, hard-shell, ineradicable, inveterate, irradicable, set1, settled. See continue/stop/pause.
  2. Forming an essential element, as arising from the basic structure of an individual: built-in, congenital, connatural, constitutional, elemental, inborn, inbred, indigenous, indwelling, inherent, innate, intrinsic, native, natural. See be, native/foreign, start/end.

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Definition: deep-rooted
Antonyms: superficial, surface

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IN BRIEF: Firmly established, deep-seated.

pronunciation The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.... — Margot Asquith (1864-1945), British socialite.

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