Inbred

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inbred \In"bred`\, a.
     Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth. "Inbred sentiments."
     --Burke.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Inbreed \In*breed"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inbred}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Inbreeding}.] [Cf. {Imbreed}.]
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     1. To produce or generate within. --Bp. Reynolds.
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              To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. To breed in and in. See under {Breed}, v. i.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inbred
       See {inbreed}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inbred
       adj 1: produced by inbreeding [ant: {outbred}]
       2: normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of
          the good" [syn: {connatural}, {inborn}, {native}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "inbred":
     atavistic, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate,
     connatural, constitutional, crossbred, endogamic, endogamous,
     exogamic, exogamous, genetic, hereditary, impregnated,
     in the blood, inborn, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate,
     inseminated, instinctive, instinctual, linebred, native, native to,
     natural, natural to, organic, outbred, physical, primal,
     temperamental