Accustomed

/əˈkʌs.təmd/ · adjective

Meaning

Familiar with something through repeated experience; adapted to existing conditions. (of a person).

Definitions by Sense

1. Familiar with something through repeated experience; adapted to existing conditions. (of a person)
2. Familiar through use; usual; customary. (of a thing, condition, activity, etc.)
3. (archaic) Frequented by customers.
4. simple past and past participle of accustom

Example Sentences

I am not accustomed to walk(ing) long distances.

She is getting more and more accustomed to the cold.

1484, William Caxton (translator), The Book of the Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope, “The v fable is of the Foxe and of the busshe,” And ther fore men ought not to helpe them whiche ben acustomed to doo euylle

1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, Partition 1, Section 2, Member 2, Subsection 3, p. 99, Such things as we haue beene long accustomed to, though they be evill in their owne nature; yet they are lesse offensiue.

“Miss Bennet, do you know who I am? I have not been accustomed to such language as this.”

Young Overton’s face assumed the bothered look of the man who is more accustomed to using his muscles than his wits […]

None of the Victorian mothers—and most of the mothers were Victorian—had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to be kissed.

1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 2, Stanza 72, in The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Boston: Cummings & Hilliard, 1814, Volume I, p. 249, Who now shall lead thy scatter’d children forth, And long-accustom’d bondage uncreate?

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• more accustomed
• most accustomed

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