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[syn: accustomed, customary, habitual, wonted(a)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Habitual \Ha*bit"ual\ (h[.a]*b[i^]t"[-u]*al; 135), a. [Cf. F.
habituel, LL. habitualis. See Habit, n.]
1. Formed or acquired by habit or use.
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An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims.
--South.
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2. According to habit; established by habit; customary;
constant; as, the habitual practice of sin.
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It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to
be grateful for the most common and ordinary
blessings. --Buckminster.
Syn: Customary; accustomed; usual; common; wonted; ordinary;
regular; familiar. -- Ha*bit"u*al*ly, adv. --
Ha*bit"u*al*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
habitual
adj 1: commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed
thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his
habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor" [syn:
accustomed, customary, habitual, wonted(a)]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "habitual":
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