deep-rooted
/ˈdiːp ˌɹuːtɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.80 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a non-living object, deeply and firmly embedded (in the ground, etc.)
Example Sentences
- "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, 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."
- "Finally the wind eats its way far beneath the point of penetration of the deepest-rooted species (except possibly Yucca) and all these are then added to the accumulating débris on the lee slope or elsewhere."
- "[His love was] as impossible to restore to growth as a deep-rooted plant torn from its bed."
- "The roots of prairie species are grouped into about three more or less definite absorbing layers , many of the deeper-rooted species having few or no absorbing roots in the first few feet of soil."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdiːp ˌɹuːtɪd/