The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
dyed-in-the-wool \dyed-in-the-wool\ adj.
1. thoroughly imbued; thoroughgoing; uncompromising;
complete; unmitigated; through-and-through.
[PJC]
2. dyed before being spun or woven into cloth.
Syn: yarn-dyed.
[WordNet 1.5]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "dyed-in-the-wool":
absolute, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading,
born, broad-based, chronic, clean, clear, colorfast, comprehensive,
confirmed, congenital, constant, consummate, deep-dyed,
deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted,
deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, double-dyed, downright,
egregious, embedded, embossed, engrafted, engraved, entrenched,
established, etched, exhaustive, fadeless, fast,
firmly established, fixed, graven, implanted, impressed, imprinted,
incorrigible, inculcated, indelible, indelibly impressed, infixed,
ingrain, ingrained, ingrown, instilled, intensive, inveterate,
inwrought, irreversible, long-established, old-line, omnibus,
omnipresent, on a rock, on bedrock, out-and-out, outright, perfect,
pervasive, plain, plumb, pure, radical, regular, rooted, set,
settled, settled in habit, sheer, stabilized, straight, sweeping,
thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, ubiquitous,
unconditional, unfading, universal, unmitigated, unqualified,
unreserved, unrestricted, utter, veritable, vested,
well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set,
well-settled, wholesale