inbred en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈɪnˌbɹɛd/ (predicative)
- /ˌɪnˈbɹɛd/ (predicative)
- /ˈɪnˌbɹɛd/ (attributive)
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Etymology
From the past participle of inbreed, equivalent to in- + bred.
Meanings
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Bred within; innate.
His cold experience tempers all his heat, And inbred worth doth boasting valour slight.
1666, John Bryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders: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?
1899, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age/A White-washed Uncle:
- (derogatory, often) Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.
- Describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.
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(figuratively, of a group) Insular or self-contained, primarily interacting with and drawing upon one another.
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.
2024 July 16, Jana Růžičková, Zoltán Elek, “Academic inbreeding reduces the scientific performance of ecologists”, in Biologia, volume 79, →DOI, pages 2505–2513: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).
1987 April 4, T.R. Witomski, “witomski responds to readers' response to witomski (letter)”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
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Deriveds
Synonyms
indigenous · inborn (bred within)
Translations (13)
el έμφυτος (Bred within) · fr consanguin (having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding) · sv inavlad (having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding) · fi sisäsiittoinen (having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding) · pl chowu wsobnego (having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding) · pt inato (Bred within) · ca consanguini (having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding) · gv ynsheelrit (having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding) · pt consanguíneo (having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding) · de inzüchtig (having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding) · de angeboren (Bred within) · ca endogàmic (having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding) · pt endogâmico (having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding)