Meaning of HABITUAL
| Pronunciation: | | hu'bichooul
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- [adj] having a habit of long standing; "a chronic smoker"
- [adj] commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor"
- [adj] made a norm or custom or habit; "his habitual practice was to eat an early supper"; "her habitual neatness"
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HABITUAL is a 8 letter word that starts with H. |
| | Synonyms: | | accustomed, addicted, chronic, confirmed, constituted, customary, established, inveterate(a), usual, wonted(a) |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ha*bit"ual\ (?; 135), a. [Cf. F. habituel, LL.
habituals. See {Habit}, n.]
1. Formed or acquired by habit or use.
An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims.
--South.
2. According to habit; established by habit; customary;
constant; as, the habiual practice of sin.
It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to
be grateful for the most common and ordinary
blessings. --Buckminster.
Syn: Customary; accustomed; usual; common; wonted; ordinary;
regular; familiar. -- {Ha*bit"u*al*ly}, adv. --
{Ha*bit"u*al*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | accepted, accustomed, addicted, arranged, automatic, average, beaten, businesslike, chronic, common, commonplace, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, current, customary, established, everyday, familiar, fixed, formal, frequent, frequentative, habituated, hackneyed, hardened, harmonious, household, in hand, ingrained, instinctive, inveterate, involuntary, many, many times, methodical, natural, normal, normative, not rare, of common occurrence, oftentime, oft-repeated, ordered, orderly, ordinary, perpetual, persistent, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, recurrent, recurring, regular, regulation, repetitive, ritual, rooted, routine, set, settled, standard, steady, stereotyped, stock, symmetrical, systematic, thick-coming, traditional, trite, uniform, universal, usual, vernacular, well-ordered, well-regulated, well-trodden, well-worn, wonted |
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