View synonyms for dyed-in-the-wool

dyed-in-the-wool

[ dahyd-n-thuh-wool ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

dyed-in-the-wool

dyed-in-the-wool

Thoroughgoing or complete: “The door-to-door salespeople are wasting their time with Evans; he's a dyed-in-the-wool advocate of shopping on the Internet .”

First recorded in 1570–80

Nothing has pleased me so much, in a long time, as to see him such a dead-in-earnest, dyed-in-the-wool officer as he is now.

You're the only seasoned, all around, dyed-in-the-wool, genuwine cowpuncher in the whole outfit.

Just to think of the nerve of him chasing the genuine dyed-in-the-wool chief out into the cold and taking his place!

But he was, doubtless, an eccentric though an experienced and dyed-in-the-wool socialist who had lectured over half the globe.

"O, those dyed-in-the-wool football fiends don't care for a little thing like that," said Dick.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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