to inculcate
9
8.1
- verb
- /ˈɪn.kəl.keɪt/
- Formal
:
inculcar
- It is important to inculcate good habits in children from a young age.
- inculcate values
- inculcate ideas
- inculcate virtues
So that's like trying to inculcate another voice, right?
- So that's like trying to inculcate another voice, right?
- Parents can inculcate many things in their children.
- So the message that got inculcated in my mind was talent doesn't matter.
- It is not the role of schools to inculcate kids with woke ideas and political correctness.
- But they certainly make an attempt to inculcate a certain sense of responsibility for their their charges.
- So although we know best many times, so can we inculcate in our children their capacity to know best for themselves.
- But what I tell people is you want people to try to behave in a kind and considerate fashion toward each other, and you want to inculcate that.
- Perhaps, Yeah, but the role should not have been so inculcated in the child as a child.
- He is, he's teaching in a certain respect and inculcating philosophy.
- Takes them a while to integrate the reality as as they know it and inculcate that into their lives.
- So when children are inculcating that particular habit, there is the Thomas Sowell quote.
- So it's literally inculcating what Woop does into every aspect of employees lives.
- It's not good for the kind of the self-confidence that we need to inculcate in whether black or Asian kids.
Examples
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Educate your children, inculcate in them the idea that they are destined to be great for ours is not a battle for wealth and power.
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Teachers often try to inculcate a love of reading in their students.
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Parents can inculcate many things in their children.
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So although we know best many times, so can we inculcate in our children their capacity to know best for themselves.
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How do we then inculcate our children, our civilization with meaning?
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To that end, we try to inculcate values such as empathy and concern for others.
Fiction book (2002) -
As teachers, we are intent on discovering how to inculcate knowledge.
Academic text (1995) -
The military educational system also inculcates the values of loyalty and patriotism.
Academic text (1991) -
The goal of Nuevos Horizontes is not merely to inculcate values, beliefs, and traditions, as well as the English language.
Academic text (1995) -
I’d like to say from the beginning that honesty... truthfulness... was a value inculcated in me growing up in New Jersey by my parents, Owen and Dorothy.
Synonyms
627
2.2
To give someone knowledge and skills by teaching or training over time
80
3.9
To make an idea or habit become fixed in someone's mind
71
4.8
To gradually make someone feel, believe, or value something
37
4.6
Fill someone or something with a feeling like confidence
31
6.1
To make a habit or idea a strong lasting part of someone's life
26
6.9
To make a feeling or situation start
22
6.9
To fill a person or thing with a particular quality
16
5.7
Put a strong idea or belief into someone's mind
2
3.9
To make someone remember something by repeating it many times
1
4.6
Repeat something many times so a person remembers it
Make someone remember something by repeating it many times
To make an idea or habit stay in a person's mind
Antonyms
How Strong
31
8.1
- Formal
9
8.1
∞
1.0
- US
71
4.8
∞
1.6
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
inculcate = in + culc + ate
Although formally analyzable as in- + culc + -ate, the central element 'culc' is not a productive or recognizable English root, so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning from its parts.
Etymology
Inculcate comes from the Latin parts in- 'in' and culcare 'to tread'. Think of someone 'treading' or pressing an idea into your mind by repeating it, so to inculcate is to teach or fix an idea in someone by repetition.