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inculcate

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Synonyms and Antonyms of inculcate

1 to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
  • dedicated teachers inculcating young minds with a love of learning
Synonyms of inculcate

endue (or indue), imbue, infuse, ingrain (also engrain), inoculate, invest, steep, suffuse
Words Related to inculcate

animate, charge, enliven, invigorate, leaven

implant, instill, plant

impregnate, permeate, pervade, saturate

deluge, drown, fill, flood, inundate, overwhelm, submerge
Near Antonyms of inculcate

deprive, divest, strip

clear, empty

eliminate, remove, take away
2 to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set
  • a malcontent who inculcated in his offspring an abiding distrust of all civil authority
Synonyms of inculcate

breed, enroot, implant, infix, inseminate, instill, plant, sow
Words Related to inculcate

drive, hammer, pound

embed (also imbed), entrench (also intrench), fix, lodge, root

imbue, infuse, ingrain (also engrain), inoculate, invest, steep, suffuse

Synonym Discussion of inculcate

implant, inculcate, instill, inseminate, infix mean to introduce into the mind. implant implies teaching that makes for permanence of what is taught.
    • implanted a love of reading in her students
inculcate implies persistent or repeated efforts to impress on the mind.
    • tried to inculcate in him high moral standards
instill stresses gradual, gentle imparting of knowledge over a long period of time.
    • instill traditional values in your children
inseminate applies to a sowing of ideas in many minds so that they spread through a class or nation.
    • inseminated an unquestioning faith in technology
infix stresses firmly inculcating a habit of thought.
    • infixed a chronic cynicism

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