Meanings
- not comparableDyed twice; thoroughly or intensely coloured.
- figurativelynot comparableFirmly fixed in opinions or habits; confirmed; inveterate.
a double-dyed villain
1 more example
"People who have extensive grounds themselves are always pleased with any thing in the same style" Emma doubted the truth of this sentiment. She had a great idea that people who had extensive grounds themselves cared very little for the extensive grounds of any body else; but it was not worth while to attack an error so double-dyed […]
1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 14
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivewithout qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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