adj · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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General-American:/ˈdiːp ˌɹuːtɪd/
General-American:/ˌɹʊtɪd/
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adj
Meaning 1
Of a plant, having deep roots.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literally
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
Examples
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.
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adj
Meaning 2
Of a non-living object, deeply and firmly embedded (in the ground, etc.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 3
Firmly established in thought or behavior and difficult to change.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
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:
