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Rooted means Having roots, or a certain type of roots..
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/ˈɹuːtɪd/ · adjective
Having roots, or a certain type of roots..
deep-rooted
She stayed rooted in place.
Those with fewest attachments or obligations may be most vulnerable to transitions from a more rooted life, before flight, to the new as-yet unrooted or uprooted life.
Six successive defeats had left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table but, clearly under instructions to attack from the outset, Bolton started far the brighter.
Luján, or, rather, the biped which used to be Luján, walks right up to him. He is a little shorter than Wheeler, but much heavier-set. Rooted to the spot, not thinking clearly, Wheeler holds his violin up, as if this will shield him. The conductor takes the instrument from his unresisting hands and breaks its neck underfoot, perfunctorily, as if crushing a box for recycling.
1782 May, Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber (editors), The Link-Boy, The London Magazine, or, Gentleman′s Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 51, page 205, He will immediately break in on their moſt rooted prejudices ; and with a kind of malignant ſatisfaction hack their darling notions with unſparing rigour and unbluſhing inſolence.
The greater part of his property he has acquired himself during years of industry ; but with it he has acquired the most rooted habits of suspicion.
With other experiences added on top, the feeling state becomes more entrenched, more rooted.
Use rooted when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rooted means Having roots, or a certain type of roots..
Common synonyms include stock-still, frozen.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
deep-rooted
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