- innate or deeply instilled
- bred from closely related parents
- resulting from physical inbreeding: inbred traits
- resulting from narrow or limited associations: a small town with inbred political ideas
Origin of inbred
past participle of inbreed
adjective
- When two cousins get married and have a child, this is an example of a time when the child isinbred.
- When a child is born with a natural intelligence, this is an example ofinbred intelligence.
The definition of inbred is someone who is born from people who are closely related, or is something that exists in a person or animal from birth.
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inbred
adjective
- Produced by inbreeding.
- 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 )
- Fixed in the character or disposition as if inherited; deep-seated: an inbred distrust of radicalism.
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Adjective
(comparative more inbred, superlative most inbred)
- bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.
- (often pejorative) having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding
- (genetics) describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.
Verb
- simple past tense and past participle of inbreed
Noun
(plural inbreds)
- (vulgar) An inbred individual
- Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds.
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inbred - Medical Definition
adj.
Produced by inbreeding.
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Sentence Examples
- Inbred, and is not so hardy and prolific as most breeds.
- All these circumstances combined to render the new regime weak and unpopular, since there was no force at the ruler's command except foreign troops to put down disorder or to protect those who submitted, while the discontented nobles fomented disaffection and the inbred hatred of strangers in race and religion among the general Afghan population.