Habitual

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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)}]
       3: having a habit of long standing; "a chronic smoker" [syn: {chronic},
           {confirmed}, {inveterate(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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