rooted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
graph-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more rooted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rooted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having roots, or a certain type of roots.
pos: adj
examples: deep-rooted
gloss: Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
pos: adj
examples: She stayed rooted in place.
Those with fewest attachments or obligations may be most vulnerable to transitions from a more rooted life, before flight, to the new as-yet unrooted or uprooted life.
Six successive defeats had left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table but, clearly under instructions to attack from the outset, Bolton started far the brighter.
Luján, or, rather, the biped which used to be Luján, walks right up to him. He is a little shorter than Wheeler, but much heavier-set. Rooted to the spot, not thinking clearly, Wheeler holds his violin up, as if this will shield him. The conductor takes the instrument from his unresisting hands and breaks its neck underfoot, perfunctorily, as if crushing a box for recycling.
gloss: Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: 1782 May, Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber (editors), The Link-Boy, The London Magazine, or, Gentleman′s Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 51, page 205,
He will immediately break in on their moſt rooted prejudices ; and with a kind of malignant ſatisfaction hack their darling notions with unſparing rigour and unbluſhing inſolence.
The greater part of his property he has acquired himself during years of industry ; but with it he has acquired the most rooted habits of suspicion.
With other experiences added on top, the feeling state becomes more entrenched, more rooted.
gloss: Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from).
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
usually
examples: Proper Philadelphians, especially before they became Episcopalians, and the unfashionable branches of their families to this day are surely more rooted in Westtown than St. Paul′s, the fashionable favorite.
For what is gradually taking hold, I think, is a way of drawing near to God that is far more rooted in history and far more rooted in the gospel than we have been accustomed to.
This form of humanism posed a greater danger to the monks and clerics than Italian humanism because it was less extravagant, less pagan, and more rooted in an ideal of Christian charity that the church at least nominally shared.
gloss: Having a root.
pos: adj
gloss: In trouble or in strife, screwed.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I am absolutely rooted if Ferris finds out about this
gloss: Broken, damaged, non-functional.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
examples: I'm going to have to call a mechanic, my car's rooted.
gloss: Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: You are rooted. All your base are belong to us.
Derived words: deep-rooted
grass-rooted
multirooted
nonrooted
rootedly
rootedness
rooted to the floor
rooted to the ground
rooted to the spot
rooted tree
turnip-rooted parsley
unrooted
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: juurtunut
lang: Finnish
word: kiinnittynyt
lang: Spanish
word: arraigado
lang: Spanish
word: enraizado
lang: Spanish
word: raiceado
lang: Spanish
word: raizado