inbred

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • (attributive adjective, noun) IPA(key): /ˈɪnˌbɹɛd/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • (predicative adjective, verb) IPA(key): /ˈɪnˌbɹɛd/, /ˌɪnˈbɹɛd/
  • Rhymes: -ɛd

Adjective

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inbred (comparative more inbred, superlative most inbred)

  1. Bred within; innate.
    • 1899, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age/A White-washed Uncle:
      We who from daily experience knew Miss Smedley like a book—were we not only too well aware that she had neither accomplishments nor charms—no characteristic, in fact, but an inbred viciousness of temper and disposition?
    • 1666, John Bryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders:
      His cold experience tempers all his heat, And inbred worth doth boasting valour slight.
  2. (often derogatory) Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.
  3. (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.
  4. (figurative, of a group) Insular or self-contained, primarily interacting with and drawing upon one another.
    • 1987 April 4, T.R. Witomski, “witomski responds to readers' response to witomski (letter)”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
      The Lavender Quill Society, that group of in-bred Manhattan gay writers who believe that gay literature begins and ends in their clique (outsiders need not apply for membership).

Synonyms

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  • (bred within): inborn, indigenous; See also Thesaurus:innate
  • (having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding):
  • (of a population of genetically identical individuals):

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Verb

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inbred

  1. simple past and past participle of inbreed
    • 1920, Chesla Clella Sherlock, chapter 3, in Care and Management of Rabbits:
      People discovered that the Belgian hare of those days was a very delicate animal and that it was subject to many diseases. It had been inbred so long in order to produce show animals that its vitality was nearly gone.

Noun

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inbred (plural inbreds)

  1. (vulgar) An inbred individual.
    Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds.

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