Inbred
adj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A plant or animal produced by inbreeding.
- 2 A person born of incest. vulgar
"Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds."
- 1 simple past and past participle of inbreed form-of, participle, past
"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."
- 1 Bred within; innate.
"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?"
- 2 Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding. derogatory, often
- 3 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 Insular or self-contained, primarily interacting with and drawing upon one another. figuratively
"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)."
- 1 normally existing at birth wordnet
- 2 produced by inbreeding wordnet
Example
More examples"All Algerian presidents are puppets of ignorant and corrupt generals. But both are inbred."
Etymology
From the past participle of inbreed, equivalent to in- + bred.
From inbreed.
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