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hardwired

hardwired adjective: designed to perform a specific task. Also the simple past and past participle of hardwire.

Adjective

hardwired (comparative more hardwired, superlative most hardwired)

  1. Designed to perform a specific task.
  2. (electronic communications) Of devices, closely or tightly coupled.
  3. Having a fixed placement (on a screen format for example).
  4. Not changeable.
  5. Having made a belief or a pattern of behavior or a habit.
    • I'm hardwired to have a shower every morning.
  6. Describing genetically determined, instinctive behavior.

Also used as

hardwired is also the simple past and past participle of hardwire.

Forms of hardwired

comparativemore hardwired
superlativemost hardwired
alternative formhard wired
alternative formhard-wired

Origin of hardwired

From hard + wired.

Questions about hardwired

What does hardwired mean?
Hardwired means designed to perform a specific task.
What part of speech is hardwired?
Hardwired is an adjective.

Words near hardwired in the dictionary

  1. Hardwick-with-Yelford
  2. Hardwicke
  3. Hardwickes
  4. Hardwicks
  5. hardwire
  6. hardwired
  7. hardwires
  8. hardwiring
  9. hardwon
  10. hardwood
  11. hardwoods

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