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deep-rooted or deep-seated Adjective (of ideas, beliefs, etc.) firmly fixed or held
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deep-rooted or deep-seated adjective fixed, confirmed, rooted, settled, entrenched, ingrained, inveterate, dyed-in-the-wool, ineradicable << OPPOSITE superficial Translations deep-rooted [ˈdiːpˈruːtɪd] adj [prejudice] → profondément enraciné(e); [affection] → profond(e); [habit] → invétéré(e) deep-rooted [ˈdiːpˈruːtɪd] adj [prejudice] → profondamente radicato/a; [affection] → profondo/a; [habit] → inveterato/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It was this: I asked myself whether there was not in his soul some deep-rooted instinct of creation, which the circumstances of his life had obscured, but which grew relentlessly, as a cancer may grow in the living tissues, till at last it took possession of his whole being and forced him irresistibly to action. Three weeks later, when Dorlcote Mill was at its prettiest moment in all the year,--the great chestnuts in blossom, and the grass all deep and daisied,--Tom Tulliver came home to it earlier than usual in the evening, and as he passed over the bridge, he looked with the old deep-rooted affection at the respectable red brick house, which always seemed cheerful and inviting outside, let the rooms be as bare and the hearts as sad as they might inside. Now, if there was one individual in the whole world, of whom the spinster aunt entertained a mortal and deep-rooted jealousy, it was this identical niece. |
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