accustomed to
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3.5
- idiom
- /əˈkʌstəmd tu/
:
acostumbrado a
- Over recent years, Americans have grown accustomed to considerably higher oil prices than those of the 1980s and 1990s.
- become accustomed to
- grow accustomed to
- teachers are accustomed to
But in that he becomes accustomed to you always doing it.
- But in that he becomes accustomed to you always doing it.
- Privilege often means that you get so accustomed to your lifestyle.
- Black people are accustomed to being insulted.
- I mean, yeah, it was definitely hard because you're so accustomed to the routine, the life.
- As humanists, we're not necessarily accustomed to working on teams or playing on teams.
- And of course, people have become accustomed to cheap flights.
- And again, we are so accustomed to talking about unhealthy patterns on this channel.
- In new directions, your character has become somewhat accustomed to the impossible or improbable situation.
- The interface of the phone, we're all accustomed to seeing Android or iOS as an example.
- It's war, but it's a world of war I'm accustomed to for a long time, and it's part, it's a norm for me.
- We know that you use the one that you're accustomed to and and amplify.
- Many have become accustomed to handling things on their own right.
- We sort of get accustomed to the workarounds on the selfishness.
- It's like get get accustomed to the new behaviors.
Examples
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I think people have become accustomed to the very rich sound of samples.
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And we're gradually becoming accustomed to pictures like this.
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I am accustomed to having everything just so.
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One more reason is that perhaps our patient group is more accustomed to testing in English.
Academic text (2013) -
But I think I could become accustomed to the language in time.
Fiction book (1991) -
Community college students are accustomed to seeing the classroom as a site for social and academic engagement.
Academic text (2013) -
People are accustomed to high quality UI these days.
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Social networking is widespread among teenagers, who are accustomed to online sharing of information.
Academic text (2013) -
As a gynecological surgeon during my training in London, I became accustomed to the title 'mister.'
Fiction book (1991) -
She is accustomed to waking up early every morning for her job.
Synonyms
∞
2.3
Comfortable with something because you do it often
476
2.8
Knowing a place or subject well from experience
3
8.2
You do not react strongly to something unpleasant because you are used to it
Antonyms
How Familiar
116
3.5
3
4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
accustomed + to
The adjective 'accustomed' already means 'familiar due to repeated experience' and the preposition 'to' simply marks the thing one is familiar with, so the combined phrase transparently yields 'familiar with / used to'. This follows a regular adjective + preposition pattern that is predictable for learners and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand the MWE.
Etymology
Accustomed to may come from the idea of a custom, meaning a regular habit. Imagine someone living in a new place who does the same small daily things until they feel normal. So, accustomed to means 'familiar with' or 'used to'.