rooted

[ roo-tid, root-id ]

adjective

1. having roots. root.
2. firmly implanted (often used in combination):

   a deep-rooted belief.

rooted

/ ˈruːtɪd /

adjective

1. having roots
2. deeply felt

   rooted objections

3. slang.
   tired or defeated
4. get rooted! taboo.
   an exclamation of contemptuous anger or annoyance, esp against another person

Other Words From

• rooted·ly adverb
• rooted·ness noun
• multi·rooted adjective
• under·rooted adjective
• well-rooted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of rooted¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English roted; root ¹, -ed ², -ed ³

Example Sentences

Supreme Court’s method to answer the question: asking whether such a right was deeply rooted in the state’s history and tradition.

From Slate

Gabbard, who served in the Hawaii National Guard and then joined an Army reserve unit that was deployed to Iraq, has said that her skepticism of intervention was rooted in her experience from serving in a war that she saw as unnecessary and costly.

From Salon

Roberts went on to say that his desire to transform America was rooted in childhood trauma.

From Salon

While gesturing to free markets, he called on Vance to implement an industrial policy rooted in the defense industry, which would, in some ways, continue President Joe Biden’s project of military Keynesianism.

From Salon

Baroque murders aside, and a modicum of genre clichés — an aggressive reporter, for instance, getting in our heroes’ way — it’s rooted in humans being human, and as absurd as everything is to do with Ramsay, the detectives, their families and friends live in a nicely sketched community in a well-drawn, relatively real world.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• entrenched
• fixed