1. hardwired - Adjective
2. hardwired - Verb
(electronics) Designed to perform a specific task.
(electronic communications) Of devices, closely or tightly coupled.
(computing) Having a fixed placement (on a screen format for example.)
Not changeable.
(humans and animals) Having made a belief or a pattern of behavior a habit.
I'm hardwired to have a shower every morning.
In humans and animals, describing genetically determined, instinctive behavior.
hardwired
simple past and past participle of hardwire
Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared. Barack Obama
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. Jasper Fforde
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. Rick Moody
Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far. William Landay
We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on. iO Tillett Wright
People on left have to better understand what are the benefits of inequality, and people on right have to understand better what the dangers are... It has to become properly hardwired into the American democratic debate in a way that it hasn't really been. Angus Deaton