deep-rooted

See also: deeprooted

English

Adjective

deep-rooted

1. (literally, of a plant) Having deep roots; (of a non-living object) deeply and firmly embedded (in the ground, etc.).
   • 1662, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England‎^[1], London: Thomas Williams, page 186:

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

   • 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,^[2]

     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,^[3]

     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.

   • 1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth‎^[4], New York: Scribner, Book 2, Chapter 13, p. 517:

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

2. (figurative) Firmly established in thought or behavior and difficult to change.

   Synonyms: ineradicable, bred-in-the-bone, deep-seated, deep-lying

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

   • 1631, John Ball, A Treatise of Faith‎^[5], London: Edward Brewster, Part 1, Chapter 3, p:

     […] Temporarie faith keeping residence only in the out-face of the heart, is ouerswayed & ouerborn in temptation by euery strong desire, or deep-rooted passion.

   • 1753, William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty‎^[6], London, Chapter 14, p. 119, footnote:

     Notwithstanding the deep-rooted notion, even amongst the majority of painters themselves, that time is a great improver of good pictures, I will undertake to shew, that nothing can be more absurd.

   • 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,^[7]

     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:

   • 1997, Arundhati Roy, chapter 14, in The God of Small Things‎^[8], New York: Random House, page 263:

     “He may be very well okay as a person. But other workers are not happy with him. Already they are coming to me with complaints. You see, comrade, from local standpoint, these caste issues are very deep-rooted.”

   • 2022 March 9, “Network News: East London drainage work”, in RAIL, number 952, page 16:

     The installation of new pipes should resolve deep-rooted flooding problems.

Translations

having deep roots

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 根深ねぶか的てき (gēnshēn de)

• Dutch: diepgeworteld (nl)
• Finnish: syväjuurinen
• French: profondément enraciné
• Polish: głęboko zakorzeniony
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

firmly established

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 根深ねぶか蒂固 (zh) (gēnshēndìgù), 刻こく骨こつ (zh) (kègǔ)

• Finnish: vakiintunut (fi)
• French: profondément enraciné, ancré (fr)
• Polish: głęboko zakorzeniony
• Russian: глубоко́ укорени́вшийся (glubokó ukorenívšijsja)

References

• “deep-rooted”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.