entrencheden‧trenched /ɪnˈtrentʃt/ adjective 
Ageism is entrenched in our society.entrenched attitudes/positions/interests etc a deeply entrenched belief in male superiority—entrench verb [transitive]
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- In the small towns racial prejudice was deeply entrenched.
- The attitudes of adults to mentally handicapped tend to be firmly entrenched, and difficult to change.
- The unequal treatment of men and women in the labour market is deeply entrenched in our culture.
- Britain is a country without entrenched constitutional limits on the powers of its supreme regular legislator, Parliament.
- But changing entrenched ways of doing things and challenging powerful financial interests will be difficult, whatever the intentions of the government.
- He is often pictured as an outsider battling against entrenched orthodoxies.
- However, there is some evidence of a recent reappraisal of this entrenched attitude.
- No doubt, she thought, a visitor might be a very unwelcome distraction in his entrenched life.
- Or is this a counsel of despair which makes the culture of racism seem more entrenched and unchangeable than it really is?
- The more entrenched feeding problems can be very difficult to treat and take a long time to show improvement.
- The more entrenched unwelcome developments have become, the harder it will be to reverse them.
Longman Language Activatorunwilling to accept changes or new ideas
someone who has fixed ideas has opinions and attitudes that never change, and often seem unreasonable: · These old teachers tend to have very fixed ideas.have fixed ideas about: · He has very fixed ideas about the way a wife should behave.
strongly opposed to change, especially social or political change, in a way that you think is unreasonable: · The seventy-year-old president has been condemned as reactionary by his radical opponents.· He is known for his reactionary views on immigration and the reintroduction of the death penalty.· Cultural attitudes to women were more reactionary than in most of Western Europe.
entrenched attitudes are ones that people have had for a long time and are very difficult to change: entrenched in: · The unequal treatment of men and women in the labour market is deeply entrenched in our culture. firmly/deeply entrenched: · In the small towns racial prejudice was deeply entrenched.entrenched attitudes/habits/beliefs etc: · The attitudes of adults to the mentally handicapped tend to be firmly entrenched, and difficult to change.
informal someone who has old-fashioned attitudes and is unwilling to change or try something new: · Come on, don't be such an old stick in the mud.· She accused him of being a stick in the mud.
someone who still refuses to change their beliefs even when most other people have changed them: · Apart from a few union diehards most of the men have accepted the new productivity agreement.
a group of people or an institution that is hidebound has very old-fashioned ideas and attitudes and is unwilling to change them: · It was predictable that the medical establishment, so hidebound and reactionary, would reject Dr Stone's ideas.· The hidebound attitudes of Russia's powerful aristocracy made any kind of progress impossible.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a deeply entrenched belief in male superiorityCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
strongly established and not likely to change – often used to show disapprovalentrenched in a deeply entrenched belief in male superiority· Not even the love scenes between Guillaume Depardieu and Anne Brochet can lift the deeply entrenched gloom.· Such boundaries have to be respected for they mirror deeply entrenched attitudes and social expectations.
Ageism is entrenched in our society.entrenched attitudes/positions/interests etc a deeply entrenched belief in male superiority—entrench verb [transitive]