Usually means: Firmly established in one's beliefs.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word dyed in the wool:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. dyed-in-the-wool: Merriam-Webster
  2. dyed in the wool: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dyed-in-the-wool: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dyed-in-the-wool, dyed-in-the-wool, dyed in the wool: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dyed-in-the-wool: Wordnik
  6. dyed-in-the-wool: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dyed-in-the-wool, dyed in the wool: Wiktionary
  8. dyed-in-the-wool: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dyed-in-the-wool: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. dyed-in-the-wool, dyed in the wool: Dictionary.com
  11. dyed-in-the-wool: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Dyed-in-the-wool: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. DYED IN THE WOOL: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  14. dyed-in-the-wool: FreeDictionary.org
  15. dyed-in-the-wool: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. dyed in the wool: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dyed-in-the-wool: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dyed-in-the-wool: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dyed-in-the-wool: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. dyed-in-the-wool: A Word A Day
  3. dyed-in-the-wool: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dyed in the wool: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dyed in the wool)

adjective:  (idiomatic) Alternative spelling of dyed-in-the-wool (Set in one's ways, steadfast.) [(of textiles) Having the fibres dyed before they are formed into cloth.]

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