Inbred

Quick meaning: Inbred is an adjective meaning Bred within; innate.

Meaning

Bred within; innate.

More Meanings

1. (often derogatory) Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.
2. (figurative, of a group) Insular or self-contained, primarily interacting with and drawing upon one another.
3. A plant or animal produced by inbreeding.
4. simple past and past participle of inbreed
5. (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.
6. (vulgar) A person born of incest.

Example Sentences

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

His cold experience tempers all his heat, And inbred worth doth boasting valour slight.

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).

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.

Word Forms

• inbreds

Synonyms for inbred

Depending on context, synonyms include inborn, indigenous, natural, connatural, native, interbred.

Antonyms for inbred

Common opposites include outbred.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inborn, natural, connatural, native, interbred, consanguineous.

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