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in·bred

 (ĭn′brĕd′)
adj.
1. Produced by inbreeding.
2. Consisting of or involving a homogenous or unvaried group of people: "[The college's] faculty became markedly less inbred, with the proportion of alumni dropping from 68 to 41 percent" (Jerome Karabel).
3. Fixed in the character or disposition as if inherited; deep-seated: an inbred distrust of radicalism.
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inbred

(ˈɪnˈbrɛd)
adj
1. (Biology) produced as a result of inbreeding
2. deeply ingrained; innate: inbred good manners.
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in•bred

(ˈɪnˈbrɛd)

adj.
1. naturally inherent; innate: an inbred grace.
2. resulting from or involved in inbreeding.
[1585–95]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.inbred - produced by inbreeding
outbred - bred of parents not closely related; having parents of different classes or tribes
2.inbred - normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of the good"
native - belonging to one by birth; "my native land"; "one's native language"
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inbred

adjective innate, natural, constitutional, native, ingrained, inherent, deep-seated, immanent, hard-wired behaviour patterns that are inbred
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inbred

adjective
Forming an essential element, as arising from the basic structure of an individual:
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Translations

inbred

[ˈɪnbred] ADJ (= innate) → innato; (= result of in-breeding) → engendrado por endogamia
we're too inbred in this companyen esta empresa estamos demasiado cerrados al exterior
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inbred

[ˌɪnˈbrɛd] adj
(= innate) → inné(e)
to be inbred in sb → être inné(e) en qn, être inné(e) chez qn
(genetically) [person] → consanguin(e); [animal] → consanguin(e)
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inbred

adj
an inbred familyeine Familie, in der Inzucht herrscht; they look very inbredsie sehen nach Inzucht aus; to stop them becoming inbredum die Inzucht bei ihnen aufzuhalten; the royal family became very inbredin der Königsfamilie herrschte Inzucht
qualityangeboren (in sb jdm)
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inbred

[ˈɪnˈbrɛd] adj (tendency) → innato/a
an inbred family (pej) una famiglia con un alto indice di unioni fra consanguinei
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inbred

adj endogámico (form), procrea do por uniones entre la misma familia extendida
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References in classic literature ?
Are there, infinitely varying with each individual, inbred forces of Good and Evil in all of us, deep down below the reach of mortal encouragement and mortal repression -- hidden Good and hidden Evil, both alike at the mercy of the liberating opportunity and the sufficient temptation?
He has an inbred capacity for reading the riddle the right way in cases of mystery, great or small.
Lady Janet's inbred sense of justice admitted not over willingly--the reasonableness as well as the humanity of the view expressed in those words.
She had a confused, dreamy notion that, if the creditors were all paid, her plate and linen ought to come back to her; but she had an inbred perception that while people owed money they were unable to pay, they couldn't rightly call anything their own.
Still, in spite of these drawbacks, there was a latent charm in her expression, there was an inbred fascination in her manner, which instantly found its way to my sympathies and its hold on my admiration.
Betteredge pretty often-- invariably producing her as his one undeniable example of the inbred frailty and perversity of the other sex.
They are the result of the same cause in both cases: the possessor's old and inbred custom of re- garding himself as a superior being.
All his faults were marked by kindred traits, and were those of a man who had a fine baritone, whose clothes hung well upon him, and who even in his ordinary gestures had an air of inbred distinction.
As she sat at the cabin breakfast-table that morning, in her quaintly-made sailing dress of old-fashioned nankeen--her inbred childishness of manner contrasting delightfully with the blooming maturity of her form--the man must have been trebly armed indeed in the modern philosophy who could have denied that the first of a woman's rights is the right of being beautiful; and the foremost of a woman's merits, the merit of being young!
At last this odious offspring whom thou seest Thine own begotten, breaking violent way Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pain Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew Transform'd: but he my inbred enemie Forth issu'd, brandishing his fatal Dart Made to destroy: I fled, and cry'd out DEATH; Hell trembl'd at the hideous Name, and sigh'd From all her Caves, and back resounded DEATH.
Call the death by any name your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the same death eternally--inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only--spontaneous combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died.
Vanborough was tall and dark--a dashing, handsome man; with an energy in his face which all the world saw; with an inbred falseness under it which only a special observer could detect.