Dyed-in-the-wool

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  dyed-in-the-wool \dyed-in-the-wool\ adj.
     1. thoroughly imbued; thoroughgoing; uncompromising;
        complete; unmitigated; through-and-through.
        [PJC]
  
     2. dyed before being spun or woven into cloth.


  
     Syn: yarn-dyed.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "dyed-in-the-wool":
     absolute, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading,
     born, broad-based, chronic, clean, clear, colorfast, comprehensive,
     confirmed, congenital, constant, consummate, deep-dyed,
     deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted,
     deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, double-dyed, downright,
     egregious, embedded, embossed, engrafted, engraved, entrenched,
     established, etched, exhaustive, fadeless, fast,
     firmly established, fixed, graven, implanted, impressed, imprinted,
     incorrigible, inculcated, indelible, indelibly impressed, infixed,
     ingrain, ingrained, ingrown, instilled, intensive, inveterate,
     inwrought, irreversible, long-established, old-line, omnibus,
     omnipresent, on a rock, on bedrock, out-and-out, outright, perfect,
     pervasive, plain, plumb, pure, radical, regular, rooted, set,
     settled, settled in habit, sheer, stabilized, straight, sweeping,
     thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, ubiquitous,
     unconditional, unfading, universal, unmitigated, unqualified,
     unreserved, unrestricted, utter, veritable, vested,
     well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set,
     well-settled, wholesale