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deepest-lying

deepest-lying is the superlative form of deep-lying.

Meaning of deep-lying

Adjective

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

  1. (figuratively, literally) Established at a deep level.
    • […] in the bitterness of his soul he excused himself;—was he not justified in shrinking from the task of telling her, since now she knew the truth she had no impulse to speak to him? But a deeper-lying consciousness that he was in fault made him restless, and the silence between them became...1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LXXV, in Middlemarch […], volume IV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VIII, page 224

Questions about deepest-lying

What is deepest-lying the superlative form of?
Deepest-lying is the superlative form of deep-lying.

Words near deepest-lying in the dictionary

  1. deeper
  2. deeper-lying
  3. deeper-rooted
  4. deeper-seated
  5. deepest
  6. deepest-lying
  7. deepest-rooted
  8. deepest-seated
  9. deepfake
  10. deepfaked
  11. deepfaker

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