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deep-seated Definition

deep·-seated (-sēt′id)

adjective

  1. placed or originating far beneath the surface
  2. deep-rooted (sense )

deep-seated Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • prejudice: There is, alas, a deep-seated prejudice in British education.
  • tendency: Does the Prime Minister believe that those changes symbolize a deep-seated republican tendency at the heart of his Government?
  • conviction: I probe for some deep-seated ideological conviction behind the pose.
  • fear: This analysis shows that the Chinese leadership's deep-seated fears about the escalating levels of labor unrest in China are fundamentally misplaced.
  • belief: This kind of color is a perception of a deep-seated human belief in the concept of eternity, the rich saturated cobalt blue.
  • anxiety: Many members of the public have a deep-seated anxiety about mobile phone base stations due to emissions.

Modifying Another Word

  • very: The officers ' uniforms cowed the most offensive of the rowdies, but I don't think the terror was very deep-seated.
  • so: Some of these councilors are so deep-seated in their covens that they live and breathe and thrive within the dogma of thai political structure.
  • too: The problems facing farmers are in many cases too deep-seated for that.
  • not: On the whole it is not deep-seated ideological commitment.

Used with adjective complement

  • evoke: The very term 'crimes of passion ' evokes deep-seated, primitive responses in us all.