HABITUAL
Dictionary entry overview: What does habitual mean? • HABITUAL (adjective)
The adjective HABITUAL has 3 senses:
1. made a norm or custom or habit
2. commonly used or practiced; usual
3. having a habit of long standing
Familiarity information: HABITUAL used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• HABITUAL (adjective)
Meaning:
Made a norm or custom or habit
Context examples:
his habitual practice was to eat an early supper / her habitual neatness
Similar:
constituted; established (brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established)
Meaning:
Commonly used or practiced; usual
Synonyms:
wonted; accustomed; customary; habitual
Context examples:
his accustomed thoroughness / took his customary morning walk / his habitual comment / with her wonted candor
Similar:
usual (occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure)
Meaning:
Having a habit of long standing
Synonyms:
inveterate; confirmed; habitual
Context example:
a chronic smoker
Similar:
addicted (compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming)
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