Meaning of ESTABLISHED

Pronunciation:			ust'ablisht
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[adj]  introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation [adj]  brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established; "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church" [adj]  conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" [adj]  shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt; "the established facts in the case" [adj]  securely established; "an established reputation"; "holds a firm position as the country's leading poet" [adj]  settled securely and unconditionally; "that smoking causes health problems is an accomplished fact"
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	Synonyms:		accepted, accomplished, brought about, constituted, conventional, deep-rooted, deep-seated, effected, entrenched, firm, foreign, grooved, habitual, implanted, ingrained, legitimate, naturalized, official, orthodox, planted, proved, proven, recognised, recognized, secure, set up, settled, well-grooved
	Antonyms:		unestablished
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		accepted, acknowledged, actual, admitted, ascertained, assigned, assured, attested, authenticated, borne out, categorically true, certain, certified, chronic, circumstantiated, confirmed, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, corroborated, current, customary, decided, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, demonstrated, deployed, determinate, determined, documentary, dyed-in-the-wool, effectual, embedded, embosomed, embossed, emplaced, engrafted, engraved, ensconced, entrenched, etched, everyday, factual, familiar, fast, firmly established, fixed, folk, generally accepted, graven, guaranteed, hallowed, handed down, heroic, historical, hoary, immemorial, implanted, impressed, imprinted, in the bag, incorrigible, inculcated, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, installed, instilled, inveterate, inwrought, irreversible, legendary, located, long-established, long-standing, made sure, mythological, nailed down, normal, not in error, objectively true, obtaining, of long standing, of the folk, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, on ice, open-and-shut, oral, ordinary, placed, planted, popular, positioned, posted, prescribed, prescriptive, prevalent, proved, proven, real, received, recognized, regular, regulation, rooted, seated, secure, set, settled, settled in habit, shown, situate, situated, spotted, stabilized, standard, stated, stationed, stock, substantiated, sure-enough, tested, thorough, time-honored, traditional, tried, tried and true, true, true as gospel, true-blue, truthful, unconfuted, undenied, understood, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted, unwritten, usual, validated, venerable, veracious, verified, veritable, vested, warranted, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled, widespread, wonted, worshipful