DEEP-SEATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deep-seated mean? 

• DEEP-SEATED (adjective)
  The adjective DEEP-SEATED has 1 sense:

1. (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held

  Familiarity information: DEEP-SEATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEEP-SEATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held

Synonyms:

deep-rooted; deep-seated; implanted; ingrained; planted

Context example:

a deeply planted need

Similar:

constituted; established (brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established)

 Context examples 

Traces of deep-seated anguish appeared in my countenance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Photodynamic therapy used to treat deep-seated solid tumors.

(Interstitial Illumination Photodynamic Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

He swiftly saw, no matter upon what they talked, that each man applied the correlation of knowledge and had also a deep-seated and unified conception of society and the Cosmos.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Never before had I understood that deep-seated fear and wholesome respect which many centuries of bludgeoning at the hands of the law had beaten into the fierce and turbulent natives of these islands.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)