Habitual

Quick meaning: Habitual is an adjective meaning Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.

Meaning

Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.

More Meanings

1. Regular or usual.
2. Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.
3. (grammar) Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.
4. (colloquial) One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender.
5. (grammar) A construction representing something done habitually.

Example Sentences

Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust.

I vvas baptized in thy Cordiall vvater, againſt Original ſinne, and I haue drunke of thy Cordiall Blood, for my recouerie, from actuall, and habituall ſinne, in the other Sacrament.

The habitual use of opium is wholly unlike that of the gentler narcotics, tea, coffee, areca, and even tobacco, and is far more pernicious than that even of any description of fermented liquor.

But by a long and habitual courſe of giving way to evil tempers, and indulging ſinful paſſions, a perſon may be ſo blinded thereby as not to ſee the evil thereof, and ſo hardened therein as not to feel the bad effects of them.

Word Forms

• habituall
• habituals

Synonyms for habitual

Depending on context, synonyms include perennial, repeating, repetitious, monotonous, recurrent, recurring.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wonted, usual, accustomed, confirmed, established, inveterate.

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