hardwired
About 0.16 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Designed to perform a specific task.
- adjective Of devices, closely or tightly coupled.
- adjective Having a fixed placement (on a screen format for example).
- adjective Not changeable.
- adjective Having made a belief or a pattern of behavior or a habit.
I'm hardwired to have a shower every morning.
- adjective Describing genetically determined, instinctive behavior.
- verb simple past and past participle of hardwire
Similar words
designed connected conceived plugged hard-wired hard coded hardcoded application-specific hard clocked
Often followed by
to into control in for and logic or with
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