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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ROOT'ED, pp. Having its roots planted or fixed in the earth; hence, fixed; deep; radical; as rooted sorrow; rooted aversion; rooted prejudices.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: absolutely still; "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted in astonishment" [syn: frozen, rooted, stock-still]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see root I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Root Root (r[=oo]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rooting.] 1. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. In deep grounds the weeds root deeper. --Mortimer. 2. To be firmly fixed; to be established. If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause misappehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment. --Bp. Fell.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rooted Root"ed, a. Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart. ``A rooted sorrow.'' --Shak. -- Root"*ed*ly, adv. -- Root"ed*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you say that one thing is rooted in another, you mean that it is strongly influenced by it or has developed from it. The crisis is rooted in deep rivalries between the two groups. ADJ: v-link ADJ in n 2. If someone has deeply rooted opinions or feelings, they believe or feel something extremely strongly and are unlikely to change. Racism is a deeply rooted prejudice which has existed for thousands of years. ADJ: usu ADJ n, usu adv ADJ see also deep-rooted 3. If you are rooted to the spot, you are unable to move because you are very frightened or shocked. We just stopped there, rooted to the spot. PHRASE

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Fixed, deep, radical, confirmed, established.

Moby Thesaurus

acknowledged, admitted, basic, chronic, confirmed, conventional, customary, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, essential, established, etched, fast, firm, firmly established, fixed, folk, fundamental, graven, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, immemorial, implanted, impressed, imprinted, inbred, incorrigible, inculcated, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, inherent, instilled, intrinsic, inveterate, inwrought, irreversible, legendary, long-established, long-standing, mythological, of long standing, of the folk, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, oral, prescriptive, radical, received, recognized, set, settled, settled in habit, stabilized, thorough, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, unwritten, venerable, vested, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled, worshipful