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Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fixed by a root or roots; firmly planted or embedded.
- In zoology and anatomy: Fixed by the roots; embedded and attached as if rooted, as a hair, feather, nail, or tooth.
- Specifically, fixed so by the root as to cease to grow, as a tooth: the opposite of
rootless . - Provided with roots.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
- adjective figuratively
Ingrained , as through repeated use;entrenched ;habitual orinstinctive . - adjective figuratively Having a basic or fundamental
connection (to a thing);based , originating (from). - adjective mathematics, graph theory Having a
root . - adjective slang In
trouble or instrife ,screwed . - adjective Australia, New Zealand, slang
Broken ,damaged , non-functional . - adjective computing, not comparable Having a
root (superuser ) account that has beencompromised . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
root .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective absolutely still
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Examples
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With a name rooted in weed, they were always going to be cool with me.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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With a name rooted in weed, they were always going to be cool with me.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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With a name rooted in weed, they were always going to be cool with me.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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Its use in a film set in the 1930s is thus an anachronism, a word rooted in Greek for “error in chronology.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Its use in a film set in the 1930s is thus an anachronism, a word rooted in Greek for “error in chronology.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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These are shibboleths, a word rooted in the name of a place that was pronounced differently by Israelites and Ephraimites, and was useful in revealing spies.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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These are shibboleths, a word rooted in the name of a place that was pronounced differently by Israelites and Ephraimites, and was useful in revealing spies.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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These are shibboleths, a word rooted in the name of a place that was pronounced differently by Israelites and Ephraimites, and was useful in revealing spies.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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These are shibboleths, a word rooted in the name of a place that was pronounced differently by Israelites and Ephraimites, and was useful in revealing spies.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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To transform a term rooted historically in the salt of the earth struggles of working class Latinos in the campaigns of candidates who also repeat mantra-like the phrase "middle class" alters and diminishes the political value and movement power of "Si Se Puede".
Roberto Lovato: Basta Ya: Boycott "Si Se Puede" in Elections 2008
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Words with the same meaning
- acknowledged
- admitted
- basic
- chronic
- confirmed
- conventional
- customary
- deep-dyed
- deep-engraven
- deep-fixed
- deep-grounded
- deep-laid
- deep-rooted
- deep-seated
- deep-set
- deep-settled
- dyed-in-the-wool
- embedded
- embossed
- engrafted
- engraved
- entrenched
- essential
- established
- etched
- fast
- firm
- firmly established
- fixed
- folk
- fundamental
- graven
- hallowed
- handed down
- heroic
- hoary
- immemorial
- implanted
- impressed
- imprinted
- inbred
- incorrigible
- inculcated
- indelibly impressed
- infixed
- ingrained
- ingrown
- inherent
- instilled
- intrinsic
- inveterate
- inwrought
- irreversible
- legendary
- long-established
- long-standing
- mythological
- of long standing
- of the folk
- old-line
- on a rock
- on bedrock
- oral
- prescriptive
- radical
- received
- recognized
- set
- settled
- settled in habit
- stabilized
- thorough
- time-honored
- traditional
- tried and true
- true-blue
- understood
- unwritten
- venerable
- vested
- well-established
- well-founded
- well-grounded
- well-set
- well-settled
- worshipful
GHibbs commented on the word rooted
Simple past tense: 'the plants rooted well during the winter.'
August 20, 2011