hard-wired

or hard·wired

[ hahrd-wahyuhrd ]

adjective

1. Computers.
   1. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed.
   2. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
2. (of electrical or electronic components) connected by hardwiring.
3. pertaining to or being an intrinsic and relatively unmodifiable behavior pattern:

   Every cricket has a hard-wired pattern of chirps.

hard-wired

adjective

1. (of a circuit or instruction) permanently wired into a computer, replacing separate software
2. (of human behaviour) innate; not learned

   humans have a hard-wired ability for acquiring language

Word History and Origins

Origin of hard-wired¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

We also have a growing body of biological research showing that fathers, like mothers, are hard-wired to care for children.

From The Daily Beast

After all, our bodies are hard wired to recognize the difference between “me” and “not me.”

From The Daily Beast

Democrats are never going to win back the white working class; at this point the cultural politics are just too hard-wired.

From The Daily Beast

Hard-wired into the psyche of many is the idea that somehow time off is akin to sloth.

From The Daily Beast

And of course there is the gene, that hard-wired Calvinist gateway to gloomy fate.

From The Daily Beast

Indeed, successful action was seen as a result of logic, hard-wired as part of the biological endowment.

From Project Gutenberg