Habitual

Word HABITUAL
Character 8
Hyphenation ha bit ual
Pronunciations /-tjʊ-/

Definitions and meanings of "Habitual"

What do we mean by habitual?

Done by habit. adjective

Being so by habit: synonym: chronic. adjective

Established by long use; usual: synonym: usual. adjective

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). adjective

Formed or acquired by, or resulting from, habit, frequent use, or custom.

According to or constituting a habit; existing as a habit or a fixed condition; customary; usual; regular: as, the habitual practice of sin; the habitual exercise of forbearance; habitual good or ill health.

Formed by repeated impressions; rendered permanent by continued causes: as, a habitual color of the skin

Synonyms Usual, Customary, Habitual; accustomed, wonted, regular, ordinary, every-day. As habit goes beyond custom in its regularity, so habitual goes beyond usual or customary. Indeed, habitual would now hardly be used where it was not meant that the habit was uniform and unbroken or firmly fixed as an element of character: as, habitual indolence. The other words lead up to this: usual, that which occurs much more often than not; customary, that which occurs in the larger part of all the cases. See custom.

Formed or acquired by habit or use. adjective

According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant. adjective

Behaving in a regular manner, as a habit. adjective

Recurring, or that is performed over and over again. adjective

Regular or usual. adjective

Commonly used or practiced; usual adjective

One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender.

(grammar) A construction representing something done habitually.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Habitual

The word "habitual" in example sentences

BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 1 — Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki lashed out at the American military on Thursday, denouncing what he characterized as habitual attacks by troops against Iraqi civilians. ❋ Unknown (2006)

From the NYT:Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki lashed out at the American military on Thursday, denouncing what he characterized as habitual attacks by troops against Iraqi civilians.... ❋ Unknown (2006)

BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 1 — Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki lashed out at the American military on Thursday, denouncing what he characterized as habitual attacks by troops against Iraqi civiliians ❋ Unknown (2006)

There is that which we call habitual grace; that is, the fruits of the ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

Before he was twenty he'd been in Mimico for what they called habitual alcoholism. ❋ Unknown (8)

And training oneself in habitual, systematic dishonesty is surely a bad thing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Our results indicate that older adults can use these sorts of more complex motor tasks to effectively reduce repetition errors in habitual prospective memory tasks, such as taking a daily medication." ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sanctifying grace remains with us as long as we are not guilty of mortal sin; and hence, it is often called habitual grace; but actual grace comes to us only when we need its help in doing or avoiding an action, and it remains with us only while we are doing or avoiding the action. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

They were fixed upon the trail before him, and he stumbled on in habitual misery, as though he had been doing this thing for a few centuries more or less. ❋ Unknown (1907)

It was only when he read over the notes of the sitting, a little later, that he perceived all at once that his father had been describing the last hours of his life in the terms habitual to him. ❋ Michael Sage (1897)

Twice he drew himself up slightly and looked around the room, with the expression habitual to him when about to deliver a public address. ❋ Robert Grant (1896)

"A horse does not understand a jest: tickling him or pinching him; worrying him in the stall; sometimes coaxing and then scolding him; dressing him when feeding; pushing him with the fork; all play of this sort leads to retort, which, when it becomes habitual, is incurable vice." ❋ Jane (1845)

He takes calls from members of the public, even entertaining rants from a group he calls his "habitual callers." ❋ Unknown (2011)

We know not when our hour will come, and therefore what we have to do in habitual preparation for it ought never to be undone; but, when we know by the harbingers that our hour is come, we must vigorously apply ourselves to an actual preparation, as our Master did, 2 Pet. iii. ❋ Unknown (1721)

It could be argued that he still committed a crime if the carnal intercourse was 'habitual' -- however I doubt that even South Carolina can successfully try and convict an individual based on events that occurred in Argentina, outside of state jurisdiction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And Michael, already deep-sunk in habitual moroseness merely looked at her calmly, not a ripple to his neck - hair nor a prick to his ears. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If the story was about her, we’d be reading about why she continues to live in habitual pain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Being cut loose from the habitual is the essential gift of travel, as uncomfortable as it may be psychologically fruitful. ❋ Alain De Botton (2011)

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