Synonym: deep-rooted, deep-seated, implanted, planted. Similar words: grained, trained, drained, strained, restrained, migraine, unrestrained, unconstrained. Meaning: [‚ɪn'greɪnd] 
adj. (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held.
adj. (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held. 
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1. Such ingrained prejudices cannot be corrected easily.
2. Prejudice remains deeply ingrained in many organizations.
3. The associative guilt was ingrained in his soul.
4. The oil had become ingrained in his skin.
5. Morals tend to be deeply ingrained.
6. The idea of doing our duty is deeply ingrained in most people.
7. The belief that one should work hard is ingrained in our culture.
8. His Southern Baptist upbringing was still too ingrained.
9. Such learned behaviour is heavily ingrained in many of us.
10. So deeply ingrained is our instinct to search for a pattern that we refuse to accept any input as genuinely random.
11. Their faults seem so deeply ingrained, from quantitative measures and bogus statistics to valueless currencies and not caring about the environment.
12. Ingrained attitudes and habitual ways of thinking are very difficult to change.
13. These traits are ingrained and stable dispositions to respond to certain situations in particular ways characteristic of the personality.
14. This is so ingrained and so influential, I shall have occasion to come back to it many times.
15. Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
16. So ingrained is the reflex of contention that even seemingly unobjectionable ideas provoke it.
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17. She raged against their ingrained fear of life and their traditional views.
18. This deeply ingrained suspicion of central government explains the aversion of teachers to any increase of ministerial involvement in curricular matters.
19. Amelia loved poetry and had an ingrained habit of retreating into it to handle difficult situations.
20. The belief that we should do our duty is deeply ingrained in most of us.
21. The belief that you should own your house is deeply ingrained in British society.
22. Indeed it was possible that the obstacles to change in Britain were too deeply ingrained for any government to effect significant improvements.
23. But historically speaking, this reverence for language is deeply ingrained and persistent.
24. It forms a part of a man's life, more deeply ingrained as he matures.
25. Though sometimes overt, racism is usually covert, but is deeply ingrained in professional and institutional practices.
26. The impelling force for this journey is a genuine and deeply ingrained love for corn in any form.
27. In the world's most litigious society the refusal to admit liability is culturally ingrained.
28. That first post-natal subservience, bred of physical dependence, was too ingrained ever to be totally eradicated.
29. Williamson's experiences of the war were just as deeply ingrained.
30. The continuing problems of Northern Ireland demonstrate the futility of responding to a deeply ingrained political problem with a law-and-order response.
More similar words: grained, trained, drained, strained, restrained, migraine, unrestrained, unconstrained, constrainedly, against the grain, grain, grains, pained, trainee, trainer, ordained, strainer, unchained, contained, sustained, ingrate, foreordained, entertained, engraving, ingratiating, gain ground, stalingrad, ingratiate, brain drain, raining.