INGRAINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ingrained mean? 

• INGRAINED (adjective)
  The adjective INGRAINED has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: INGRAINED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INGRAINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

deep-rooted; deep-seated; implanted; ingrained; planted

Context example:

a deeply planted need

Similar:

constituted; established (brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established)

 Context examples 

He held up his hand, rubbing the ball of the thumb over the calloused palm and gazing at the dirt that was ingrained in the flesh itself and which no brush could scrub away.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was repelled by those lacerated hands, grimed by toil so that the very dirt of life was ingrained in the flesh itself, by that red chafe of the collar and those bulging muscles.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)