Modifying Another Word

• so: Of course, self-protecting humor risks becoming so habitual that when we really do want to be taken seriously, nobody notices!

• not: I think those who are not habitual users of PCs might get rather exasperated with it.

• often: They are often habitual readers and they typically select professions on the basis of how much potential for growth they offer.

• then: A progressive fibrosis of the quadriceps muscle occurs which eventually produces recurrent, then habitual and finally chronic patello-femoral dislocation.

Modifies a noun

• drunkard: The Clerk: He charges you with being an habitual drunkard.

• residence: The Decision Maker must consider the question of habitual residence in the normal way.

• liar: Macy Gray is great because she's mad and a habitual liar, so she's always superb value.

• drunkenness: Furthermore, this body had " demanded divorce on easier terms, even such as an allegation of habitual drunkenness " .

• abode: State, he shall be deemed to be a resident of the Contracting State in which he has an habitual abode.

• smoker: His double tours seem as easy for him as flicking the ash from cigarettes for some habitual smokers.

Used with adjective complement

• become: We choose what will become habitual by decisions we make in our minds.

• make: That unnoticed stream of perception was an everyday made habitual, in a time that flows without interruption.