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ingrained

Adjective

IPA /ɪnˈɡreɪnd/

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So firmly established through time or repeated experience that a habit, belief or attitude is difficult to change.

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ingrained/ɪnˈɡreɪnd/

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A habit repeated for years
Now very hard to change

An ingrained habit has become firmly established.

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Checking the door twice had become an ingrained habit for him.
The workshop challenged ingrained assumptions about how students learn.

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ingrained — So firmly established through time or repeated experience that a habit, belief or attitude is difficult to change.

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Formed from ingrain and -ed, using the verb's past participle as an adjective.

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Ingrained can come before a noun or after be: ingrained habits or the habit is ingrained.

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