ingrained
adjective
- etch, impress or mark
Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English ingrain English -ed English ingrained From ingrain + -ed.
- Being an element; present in the essence of a thing
“But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.”
- Fixed, established
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree English ingrain English -ed English ingrained From ingrain + -ed.
- simple past and past participle of ingrain