INGRAINED Synonyms

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

• having a sunken area

• enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass

• inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole

• impart gradually

• enter drop by drop

• produce or try to produce a vivid impression of

• teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions

• fill, as with a certain quality

• fix or set securely or deeply

• attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war

• an affix that is inserted inside the word

• put or introduce into something

• attach a morpheme into a stem word

• a relatively small granular particle of a substance

• foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

• the side of leather from which the hair has been removed

• a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat

• 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams

• 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams

• dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn

• a cereal grass

• the smallest possible unit of anything

• the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric

• the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)

• thoroughly work in

• paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood

• form into grains

• become granular

• the act of coercing someone into government service

• have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

• impress positively

• produce or try to produce a vivid impression of

• mark or stamp with or as if with pressure

• reproduce by printing

• take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship

• dye (fabric) before it is spun

• existing as an essential constituent or characteristic

• in the nature of something though not readily apparent