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deep-rooted

/ˈdiːp ˌɹuːtɪd/

deep-rooted adjective: of a plant, having deep roots.

Adjective

deep-rooted (comparative deeper-rooted, superlative deepest-rooted)

  1. (literally) Of a plant, having deep roots.
    • He observed the leaves of trees there abouts more deeply green then else∣where, the Oakes broad-spreading, but not deep-rooted;1662, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: Thomas Williams, page 186
    • Poor floating Isle, tost on ill Fortune’s Waves,
      Ordain’d by Fate to be the Land of Slaves;
      Shall moving Delos now deep-rooted stand,
      Thou, fixt of old, be now the moving Land?1726, Jonathan Swift (translator), “Horace, Book I, Ode XIV” in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, London: T. Woodward and Charles Davis, 1736, Volume 5, p. 193
  2. Of a non-living object, deeply and firmly embedded (in the ground, etc.)
  3. (figuratively) Firmly established in thought or behavior and difficult to change.
    • They avoid conflict at all costs because of their deep-rooted fear of upsetting people.
    • […] Temporarie faith keeping residence only in the out-face of the heart, is ouerswayed & ouerborn in temptation by euery strong desire, or deep-rooted passion.1631, John Ball, A Treatise of Faith, London: Edward Brewster, Part 1, Chapter 3, p

deep-rooted meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

deep-rooted in Bengali

deep-rooted, latent, underlying
অন্তর্নিহিত ontornihito

deep-rooted in Malayalam

profound, deep-seated, deep
രൂഢമൂലമായ, ആഴത്തിലുള്ള, ആഴത്തിൽ വേരൂന്നിയ, ആഴത്തിൽക്കൊണ്ട, ആഴമുള്ള, വേരുറച്ച

deep-rooted in Kannada

ಆಳವಾಗಿ ಬೇರೂರಿದ, ಅತಿ ಗಂಭೀರವಾದ, ನಿಗೂಢ

Examples of deep-rooted in a sentence

  • [His love was] as impossible to restore to growth as a deep-rooted plant torn from its bed.1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, New York: Scribner, Book 2, Chapter 13, p. 517:
  • Notwithstanding the deep-rooted notion, even amongst the majority of painters themselves, that time is a great improver of good pictures, I will undertake to shew, that nothing can be more absurd.1753, William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty, London, Chapter 14, p. 119, footnote:
  • You see, comrade, from local standpoint, these caste issues are very deep-rooted.”1997, Arundhati Roy, chapter 14, in The God of Small Things, New York: Random House, page 263:
  • The installation of new pipes should resolve deep-rooted flooding problems.2022 March 9, “Network News: East London drainage work”, in RAIL, number 952, page 16:

Synonyms of deep-rooted

Forms of deep-rooted

comparativedeeper-rooted
superlativedeepest-rooted

Words formed from deep-rooted

Questions about deep-rooted

What does deep-rooted mean?
Deep-rooted means of a plant, having deep roots.
What is deep-rooted in Bengali?
Deep-rooted in Bengali is অন্তর্নিহিত (ontornihito). See Deep-rooted meaning in Bengali.
How do you use deep-rooted in a sentence?
[His love was] as impossible to restore to growth as a deep-rooted plant torn from its bed.
What part of speech is deep-rooted?
Deep-rooted is an adjective.
How do you pronounce deep-rooted?
Deep-rooted is pronounced /ˈdiːp ˌɹuːtɪd/ (US).

Words near deep-rooted in the dictionary

  1. deep-level
  2. deep-lying
  3. deep-lying midfielders
  4. deep-mouthed
  5. deep-pocketed
  6. deep-rooted
  7. deep-rootedness
  8. deep-sea
  9. deep-sea prawn
  10. deep-sea prawns
  11. deep-sea spiny eel

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: deep-rooted (page history and authors); অন্তর্নিহিত (Bengali) (page history and authors); deep-rooted (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); deep-rooted (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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