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Habitual

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Adjective

1. accustomed, customary, habitual, wonted

commonly used or practiced; usual

Example Sentences:
'his accustomed thoroughness'
'took his customary morning walk'
'his habitual comment'
'with her wonted candor'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Habitual

see synonyms of habitual
adjective
1. (usually prenominal)
done or experienced regularly and repeatedly
the habitual Sunday walk
2. (usually prenominal)
by habit
a habitual drinker
3. 
customary; usual
his habitual comment

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Habitual

see synonyms of habitual
adjective
1. 
formed or acquired by continual use; done by habit or fixed as a habit; customary
2. 
being or doing a certain thing by habit; steady; inveterate
a habitual smoker
3. 
much seen, done, or used; usual; frequent

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Habitual

see synonyms of habitual
adj.
1.
a. Done by habit: habitual lying.
b. Being so by habit: a habitual liar. See Synonyms at chronic.
2. Established by long use; usual: my habitual place. See Synonyms at usual.
3. 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).

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