Dictionary Definition
habitual adj
1 made a norm or custom or habit; "his habitual
practice was to eat an early supper"; "her habitual neatness"
2 commonly used or practiced; usual; "his
accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his
habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor" [syn: accustomed, customary, wonted(a)]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- behaving in a regular manner, as a habit.
- He's a habitual chainsmoker.
- recurring, or that is performed over and over again.
- Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust.
- being regular or usual.
- Professor Franklein took his habitual seat at the conference table.
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Translations
behaving in a regular manner, as a habit
- Finnish: tavanomainen
- German: gewohnt
- Swedish: vanemässig
recurring, or that is performed over and over
again
- Finnish: tavanomainen
- German: gewohnt
- Swedish: vanemässig
being regular or usual
- Finnish: tavanomainen
- German: gewohnt, gewöhnlich
- Swedish: vanlig
Translations to be checked
- ttbc Interlingua: habitual
- ttbc Spanish: habitual
- ttbc Telugu: అలవాటుగా
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accepted, accustomed, addicted, arranged, automatic, average, beaten, businesslike, chronic, common, commonplace, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, current, customary, established, everyday, familiar, fixed, formal, frequent, frequentative, habituated, hackneyed, hardened, harmonious, household, in hand, ingrained, instinctive, inveterate, involuntary, many, many times, methodical, natural, normal, normative, not rare, of common
occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, ordered, orderly, ordinary, perpetual, persistent, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, recurrent, recurring, regular, regulation, repetitive, ritual, rooted, routine, set, settled, standard, steady, stereotyped, stock, symmetrical, systematic, thick-coming,
traditional,
trite, uniform, universal, usual, vernacular, well-ordered,
well-regulated, well-trodden, well-worn, wonted