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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deep-seated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a deep-seated fear (=very strong and difficult to change)
▪ He exploited people’s deep-seated fears about strangers.
deep-seated prejudice (=very strong and difficult to change)
▪ All these attitudes are based on deep-seated prejudice.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fear
▪ A friend failing to turn up for a date may reawaken deep-seated fears of abandonment.
▪ What our deep-seated fears say, of course, can be even scarier than the stories themselves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many people in the community have a deep-seated distrust of the police.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A deep-seated brain tumor was diagnosed.
▪ A growing number of industry experts say the industry itself is to blame for its deep-seated perception problems.
▪ Even recent liberalisation has failed to dispel deep-seated suspicions that discrimination still lurks beneath the surface.
▪ My sister Janie Ming-li also enjoyed the benefits of deep-seated superstition.
▪ Part of the command-and-control legacy includes our deep-seated belief that there is only one answer.
▪ Spiritual healing aims to correct these deep-seated imbalances by strengthening the flow of the life-force and removing any negative forces or imbalances.
▪ The decline of empire has only made these deep-seated attitudes more pronounced.
▪ This violates such deep-seated feelings of justice that it has proved to be unacceptable under any criminal law jurisdiction.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
deep-seated

deep-seated \deep-seated\ adj. same as deep-rooted.

Syn: deep-rooted, fundamental, ingrained.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deep-seated

1741, "having its seat far below the surface;" see seat (v.). Figurative use is from 1847.

Wiktionary
deep-seated

a. implanted or firmly established.

WordNet
deep-seated

adj. (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held; "deep-rooted prejudice"; "deep-seated differences of opinion"; "implanted convictions"; "ingrained habits of a lifetime"; "a deeply planted need" [syn: deep-rooted, implanted, ingrained, planted]

Usage examples of "deep-seated".

Its leadership was inexperienced, and its ideology was too vague to have any immediate relevance to the deep-seated problems besetting Iraq in the early 1960s.

The deep-seated fear of men that he had already sensed in Lady Coombs had been strongly, violently reinforced for her and might never be overcome.

Confucianism, with its deep-seated idea of dualism, and Northern Buddhism with its worship of a trinity, were in no way opposed to the expression of symmetry.

A deep-seated fear within Jai urged him to run, but he forced himself to remain still.

A foil for his virtues is provided by the character of Byron, whose nauseous affectations, animal coarseness, niggardliness, except where his own personal comfort was involved, and deep-seated snobbishness, makes Shelley into an angel of light.

Dimly one felt the deep-seated trouble of the earth, the uneasy agitation of its members, the hidden tumult of its womb, demanding to be made fruitful, to reproduce, to disengage the eternal renascent germ of Life that stirred and struggled in its loins.

Before he finally died in harness, Ruggy had introduced Victoria to the fact that a substantial section of the power elite had a devilish need to physically ease their most deep-seated guilts.

It was such a deep-seated thing that they themselves did not seem to be aware of it, One and all, they undervalued or misvalued their hands, Many of them, in fact all but the surgeons, sculptors, painters, and research workers, were wretchedly clumsy with their hands, and by no means ashamed of it.

No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood vessel leads into the pineal gland.

The only support for my intel- lect was my deep-seated certainty that one of the effects of the psychotropic smoking mixture was to induce me to hallucinate the size of the gnat.

Life and property were both swallowed up, leaving behind a deep-seated sense of enormous wrong, as yet unatoned and even unacknowledged, which is one of the chief factors in the problem now presented to the statesmen of both countries.

However deep-seated his animosity toward Franklin, Adams did truly treat him with decency and managed to work effectively with him as he had in times past.

Her immersion in proportions triggered a deep-seated geometrical passion, which found its apotheosis when she met Balboa, so perfectly composed of spheres.

Enrico Valdez was sitting at one of the programming boards, in a deep-seated chair designed to accommodate a man in a decontamination suit complete with air tank.

The only support for my intel- lect was my deep-seated certainty that one of the effects of the psychotropic smoking mixture was to induce me to hallucinate the size of the gnat.