adj
Meaning 1
Dyed with grain, or kermes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ingrain
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/ɪŋˈɡɹeɪn/
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rhymes with -eɪn
adj
Meaning 2
Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, figuratively, not-comparable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To dye with a fast or lasting colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To make (something) deeply part of something else.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
Examples
- The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet.
- The lessons I learned at school were firmly ingrained in my mind.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: breed in the bone, embed, infix, instill, radicate
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
produce or try to produce a vivid impression of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: impress, instill
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: affect, impress, move, strike
verb
Meaning 8
thoroughly work in
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- His hands were grained with dirt
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: grain
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: penetrate, perforate
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English engreynen, from the French phrase en grain; reinforced by the phrase (dyed) in grain. See grain.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: värjätä — to dye with lasting color
- Finnish: syvävärjätä — to dye with lasting color
- Bulgarian: пропивам (propivam) — to make something deeply part of something else
- Czech: zakořenit — to make something deeply part of something else
- Czech: vštěpit — to make something deeply part of something else
- Finnish: piintyä (esp. fig.) — to make something deeply part of something else
- Finnish: pinttyä — to make something deeply part of something else
- Pennsylvania German: aabefehle — to make something deeply part of something else
- Russian: укореня́ть (ukorenjátʹ) — to make something deeply part of something else
- Spanish: inculcar — to make something deeply part of something else
- Spanish: arraigar — to make something deeply part of something else