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deep-seated

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deep-seat·ed (dpstd)
adj.
1. Being so far below the surface as to be unsusceptible to superficial examination, study, or treatment: a deep-seated infection.
2. Deeply rooted; ingrained: deep-seated ideological differences.
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Adj.1.deep-seated - (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held; "deep-rooted prejudice"; "deep-seated differences of opinion"; "implanted convictions"; "ingrained habits of a lifetime"; "a deeply planted need"
constituted, established - brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established; "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church"

deep-seated deep-rooted
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deep-seated [ˈdiːpˈsiːtɪd] ADJprofundamente arraigado
deep-seated [ˌdiːpˈsiːtɪd] adj (beliefs) → radicato/a


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HE had a dreamy, far-away look in his eyes, and his sad, insistent voice, gentle-spoken as a maid's, seemed the placid embodiment of some deep-seated melancholy.
Had he that deep-seated recondite complaint, and did any doctor find it out?
The rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and older; and yet it was not so much these tokens of a swift physical decay that arrested the lawyer's notice, as a look in the eye and quality of manner that seemed to testify to some deep-seated terror of the mind.
 
 
 
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