inwrought
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From past participle of inwork.
Adjective[edit]
inwrought (comparative more inwrought, superlative most inwrought)
- Having a design that has been worked or woven in.
- (figurative) Fixed, established, ingrained.
- 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the Loss od the Steamboat Ætna, page 96:
- Or wait the rolling tide;
While boldly to the sky
Her ensign, wreathing high,
Inwrought with volumed smoke, and sparkling flame, she cast.
- 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter X, page 104:
- As he had recovered his strength of body, he had recovered his self-command and the energy of his will; he had recovered the memory of all that part of his life which was closely inwrought with his emotions; and he had felt more and more constantly and painfully the uneasy sense of lost knowledge.
Synonyms[edit]
- (fixed, established, ingrained): See also Thesaurus:intrinsic
Translations[edit]
having a design that has been worked or woven in
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fixed, established, ingrained