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WELL-GROOVED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does well-grooved mean?
• WELL-GROOVED (adjective)
The adjective WELL-GROOVED has 1 sense:
1. established as if settled into a groove or rut
Familiarity information: WELL-GROOVED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Established as if settled into a groove or rut
Synonyms:
grooved; well-grooved
Similar:
constituted; established (brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established)
Context examples
They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
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