habitual
ha·bitu·al (hə bic̸h′o̵̅o̅ əl)
adjective
- formed or acquired by continual use; done by habit or fixed as a habit; customary
- being or doing a certain thing by habit; steady; inveterate a habitual smoker
- much seen, done, or used; usual; frequent
Etymology: ML habitualis, of habit or dress: see habit
habitual
modif.
Of the nature of a habit
ingrained, confirmed, frequent, periodic, continual, routine, mechanical, automatic, perfunctory, seasoned, iterated, permanent, perpetual, on-going, consuetudinary, consuetudinal, fixed, rooted, inveterate, systematic, recurrent, periodical, methodical, repeated, iterative, reiterative, disciplined, practiced, accustomed, established, set, repetitious, cyclic, reiterated, settled, trite, stereotyped, formal, addicted, acting by force of habit, being such by habit, in a groove, in a rut; see also chronic, constant 1, regular 3.Antonyms
different*, exceptional, departing. Usual
customary, accustomed, normal; see common 1, conventional 1. See syn. study at usual.
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
For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
Browse dictionary entries near habitual
- habitué
- habitation
- habitat
- habitant
- habitable
- habitability
- habit-forming
- habit
- habilitate
- habiliment
