Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of the nature of a habit: habitual lying.
- adj. Being such by force of habit: a habitual liar. See Synonyms at chronic.
- adj. Established by long use; usual: my habitual place. See Synonyms at usual.
- adj. Grammar Designating an action or state that lasts for or is repeated over an extended duration, expressed in English by such means as the simple present tense (She works downtown) and the phrase used to (A factory used to be located at that intersection).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Formed or acquired by, or resulting from, habit, frequent use, or custom.
- According to or constituting a habit; existing as a habit or a fixed condition; customary; usual; regular: as, the habitual practice of sin; the habitual exercise of forbearance; habitual good or ill health.
- Formed by repeated impressions; rendered permanent by continued causes: as, a habitual color of the skin
- Synonyms Usual, Customary, Habitual; accustomed, wonted, regular, ordinary, every-day. As habit goes beyond custom in its regularity, so habitual goes beyond usual or customary. Indeed, habitual would now hardly be used where it was not meant that the habit was uniform and unbroken or firmly fixed as an element of character: as, habitual indolence. The other words lead up to this: usual, that which occurs much more often than not; customary, that which occurs in the larger part of all the cases. See custom.
Wiktionary
- adj. Behaving in a regular manner, as a habit.
- adj. Recurring, or that is performed over and over again.
- adj. Regular or usual.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Formed or acquired by habit or use.
- adj. According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. commonly used or practiced; usual.
Examples
“BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 1 — Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki lashed out at the American military on Thursday, denouncing what he characterized as habitual attacks by troops against Iraqi civilians.”
“BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 1 — Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki lashed out at the American military on Thursday, denouncing what he characterized as habitual attacks by troops against Iraqi civiliians”
“From the NYT:Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki lashed out at the American military on Thursday, denouncing what he characterized as habitual attacks by troops against Iraqi civilians....”
“There is that which we call habitual grace; that is, the fruits of the”
“Before he was twenty he'd been in Mimico for what they called habitual alcoholism.”
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“And training oneself in habitual, systematic dishonesty is surely a bad thing.”
“Our results indicate that older adults can use these sorts of more complex motor tasks to effectively reduce repetition errors in habitual prospective memory tasks, such as taking a daily medication." ...”
“Sanctifying grace remains with us as long as we are not guilty of mortal sin; and hence, it is often called habitual grace; but actual grace comes to us only when we need its help in doing or avoiding an action, and it remains with us only while we are doing or avoiding the action.”
“They were fixed upon the trail before him, and he stumbled on in habitual misery, as though he had been doing this thing for a few centuries more or less.”
“It was only when he read over the notes of the sitting, a little later, that he perceived all at once that his father had been describing the last hours of his life in the terms habitual to him.”
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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phuzzy's Words
entomophagan, corpuscle, mellifluence, haberdasher, milliner, tow, spartan, bdellotomy, trepan, trephine, congenial, courtly and 208 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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hypomania, hypomanic, complementary, deem, problematic, volatile, mercurial, unaccompanied, counterpart, irritability, hyperthymia, violent and 130 more...
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persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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Morbidity
sickness (preferably of the brain)
morbidity, disease, malady, ailment, oneirophrenia, hysteria, dissociation, depersonalization, schizoaffective, neuropsychiatry, chronic, obsessive and 86 more...
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who I am
traveller, solitary, imaginative, pensive, habitual, nostalgic, introspective, reticent, bashful, introverted, musical, obsessive and 9 more...
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list for Kristina
spawned, persistence, awareness, fashionable, impact, demise, ethnic, statistics, encyclopedia, massive, dignity, ceremony and 21 more...
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moriza's Words
delectable, pangaea, stupendous, surreptitious, doppleganger, rapturously, ephemeral, chairama, habitual, hydrophobic, hydrophilic, sundry and 16 more...
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