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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Firmly and long established; deep-rooted: inveterate preferences.
  2. adj. Persisting in an ingrained habit; habitual: an inveterate liar. See Synonyms at chronic.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make inveterate; render chronic; establish by force of habit.
  2. Old; long established.
  3. Firmly established by long continuance; deep-rooted; obstinate: generally, though not always, in a derogatory sense: as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate enemy.
  4. Confirmed in any habit; having habits fixed by long continuance: applied to persons: as, an inveterate smoker.
  5. Malignant; virulent; showing obstinate prejudice.
  6. Synonyms Deep-seated, chronic.
  7. Habitual, hardened.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit.
  2. adj. of a person Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
  3. adj. Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
  4. v. obsolete To fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Old; long-established.
  2. adj. Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing
  3. adj. Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual.
  4. adj. Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
  5. v. obsolete To fix and settle by long continuance.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. in a habitual and longstanding manner
  2. adj. habitual.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin inveteratus ("of long standing, chronic"), form of inveterare, from in- ("in, into") + veterare ("to age"), from vetus, form of veteris ("old"); latter ancestor to veteran. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Latin inveterātus, past participle of inveterārī, to grow old, endure : in-, causative pref.; see in-2 + vetus, veter-, old; see wet-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. old
  2. long-established
  1. obstinate
  2. deep-rooted
  1. confirmed
  2. habitual
  1. malignant
  2. virulent
  1. spiteful
  2. chronic
  1. deep

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  1. usual

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  1. casual

same context (22)

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  1. incurable
  2. incorrigible
  3. unconquerable
  4. implacable
  1. ineradicable
  2. deep-seated
  3. unreasoning
  4. habitual
  1. hereditary
  2. innate
  3. rancorous
  4. lifelong
  1. ingrained
  2. persistent
  3. long-standing
  4. virulent
  1. obstinate
  2. fanatical
  3. notorious
  4. malignant
  1. petty
  2. irreconcilable

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. inveterate
  2. feud
  3. inveterately
  4. inveteration
  1. infestered
  2. chronic disease
  3. kisser
  4. interrupter
  1. habituate
  2. inveteracy
  3. confirmed
  4. cultivator
  1. Brummell
  2. seer
  3. changer
  4. congenital
  1. mortal foe
  2. rancor
  3. brocard
  4. chronic
  1. grind
  2. hate
  3. horse-leech

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