inbred

English

Pronunciation

• (attributive adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnˌbɹɛd/

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• (predicative adjective, verb) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnˌbɹɛd/, /ˌɪnˈbɹɛd/
• Rhymes: -ɛd

Etymology 1

From the past participle of inbreed, equivalent to in- +‎ bred.

Adjective

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).

   • 2024 July 16, Jana Růžičková, Zoltán Elek, “Academic inbreeding reduces the scientific performance of ecologists”, in Biologia, volume 79, →DOI, pages 2505–2513:

     The level of academic inbreeding differs between countries and continents. Macháček et al. (2022) reported that in North America only 31% of all researchers are inbred (based on 22 major fields of science), while in Asia, this proportion is 55%, in Western and Northern Europe 37% and in Central and Eastern Europe reaches nearly 79% which is the highest proportion of inbreeders on the global scale.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• inbredness

Translations

Bred within

• German: angeboren
• Greek: έμφυτος (el) m (émfytos)
• Portuguese: inato (pt)

having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding

• Finnish: sisäsiittoinen (fi)
• French: consanguin (fr)
• German: inzüchtig
• Manx: ynsheelrit
• Polish: chowu wsobnego
• Portuguese: endogámico (Portugal), endogâmico (Brazil), consanguíneo (pt)
• Spanish: endogámico (es)
• Swedish: inavlad (sv)

Noun

inbred (plural inbreds)

1. (vulgar) An inbred individual.

   Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds.

Etymology 2

From inbreed.

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• rebind, bendir, Binder, Bredin, Birden, brined, binder, Ribden