ingraining

What does ingraining mean?

ingraining means "teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition".

How many syllables are in ingraining?

ingraining has 3 syllables: in-grai-ning. The stress falls on "in".

What is another word for ingraining?

Close synonyms include inculcation, instilling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ingraining a common word?

ingraining is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ingraining come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.