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deep-seated

deep-seated adjective: physically located at a deep level.

Adjective

deep-seated (comparative more deep-seated or deeper-seated, superlative most deep-seated or deepest-seated)

  1. Physically located at a deep level.
    • a deep-seated tumour
    • Weaknesses in the earth’s crust allow deep-seated heat to rise nearer to the surface.
  2. (figuratively) Firmly implanted or established in thought or behavior and difficult to change; deeply ingrained.
    • She has a deep-seated belief in the essential goodness of human nature.
    • […] instead of the bright beams that used to play in those eyes, there was now a dark deep-seated sorrow, almost despair.1834, Maria Edgeworth, chapter 13, in Helen, volume 3, London: Richard Bentley, pages 261–262

deep-seated meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

deep-seated in Tamil

உள்ளார்ந்த, மேற்போக்கல்லாத, ஆழ்ந்த தன்மையுள்ள

deep-seated in Malayalam

deep-rooted, profound, deep
രൂഢമൂലമായ

deep-seated in Kannada

ಅಂತಸ್ಥ, ಬೇರೂರಿದ, ನೆಟ್ಟು ಹೋಗಿರುವ

Examples of deep-seated in a sentence

  • winking knowingly with his comical little deep-seated black eyes1852, Susanna Moodie, chapter 4, in Roughing it in the Bush, volume 2, London: Richard Bentley, page 76:
  • He washed [the food] down with beer and produced a deep-seated belch.1961, Leon Uris, Mila 18, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Part 3, Chapter 7, p. 328:
  • Some of the older people had started weeping, the kind of hemorrhaging, deep-seated sound that can only bring relief to the sufferer.2010, Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story, New York: Random House, page 187:
  • Swindon: Deep-seated heavy corrosion in the cast-iron station canopy supports may force their replacement when funding is available.2022 September 21, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Western”, in RAIL, number 966, page 26:

Synonyms of deep-seated

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of deep-seated

Forms of deep-seated

comparativemore deep-seated
comparativedeeper-seated
superlativemost deep-seated
superlativedeepest-seated

Origin of deep-seated

From deep + seated.

Questions about deep-seated

What does deep-seated mean?
Deep-seated means physically located at a deep level.
What is deep-seated in Tamil?
Deep-seated in Tamil is உள்ளார்ந்த, மேற்போக்கல்லாத, ஆழ்ந்த தன்மையுள்ள. See Deep-seated meaning in Tamil.
How do you use deep-seated in a sentence?
winking knowingly with his comical little deep-seated black eyes
What part of speech is deep-seated?
Deep-seated is an adjective.

Words near deep-seated in the dictionary

  1. deep-sea
  2. deep-sea prawn
  3. deep-sea prawns
  4. deep-sea spiny eel
  5. deep-sea spiny eels
  6. deep-seated
  7. deep-seeded
  8. deep-set
  9. deep-six
  10. deep-sixed
  11. deep-sixes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: deep-seated (page history and authors); deep-seated (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deep-seated (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); deep-seated (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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