adjective
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having roots
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deeply felt
rooted objections
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slang tired or defeated
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taboo an exclamation of contemptuous anger or annoyance, esp against another person
Other Word Forms
- multirooted adjective
- rootedly adverb
- rootedness noun
- underrooted adjective
- well-rooted adjective
Etymology
Origin of rooted
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English roted; root 1, -ed 2, -ed 3
Example Sentences
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How much of your suspicions are rooted in fears rather than reality?
From MarketWatch
Trade and journalistic art criticism are both rooted in mass media, now threatened as their platforms shrink and disappear.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy in which the “public” in public health is erased, ignoring the deeply rooted fact that an individual’s health cannot and never will be isolated from everyone else.
From Salon
A relentlessly logical investigator must solve a mystery rooted in love and loyalty.
But Mr. Sullivan freshens the familiar with shrewd diversions and, above all, the phenomenon of a relentlessly logical investigator confronting a mystery rooted in love and loyalty.
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