Deep-rooted

/ˈdiːp ˌɹuːtɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

(literally, botany) Of a plant, having deep roots..

Definitions by Sense

1. (literally, botany) Of a plant, having deep roots.
2. Of a non-living object, deeply and firmly embedded (in the ground, etc.)
3. (figurative) Firmly established in thought or behavior and difficult to change.

Example Sentences

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, 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?

1791, William Cowper (translator), The Odyssey, Book 13, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, London: J. Johnson, Volume 2, p. 302, And now the flying bark full near approach’d, When Neptune, meeting her, with out-spread palm Depress’d her at a stroke, and she became Deep-rooted stone.

He observed the leaves of trees there abouts more deeply green then else∣where, the Oakes broad-spreading, but not deep-rooted;

Finally the wind eats its way far beneath the point of penetration of the deepest-rooted species (except possibly Yucca) and all these are then added to the accumulating débris on the lee slope or elsewhere.

[His love was] as impossible to restore to growth as a deep-rooted plant torn from its bed.

The roots of prairie species are grouped into about three more or less definite absorbing layers , many of the deeper-rooted species having few or no absorbing roots in the first few feet of soil.

They avoid conflict at all costs because of their deep-rooted fear of upsetting people.

1850, Charlotte Brontë, letter to Elizabeth Gaskell dated 27 August, , in Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, London: Smith, Elder, 1857, Volume 2, p. 177, Certainly there are evils which our own efforts will best reach; but as certainly there are other evils—deep-rooted in the foundations of the social system—which no efforts of ours can touch:

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• deeper-rooted
• deepest-rooted

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