habitual
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4.0
- adjective
- /həˈbɪtʃuəl/
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habitual
- His habitual lateness for meetings has become a source of frustration for his colleagues.
- habitual behavior
- habitual pattern
- habitual routine
He's a terrible president, and he is a habitual liar.
- He's a terrible president, and he is a habitual liar.
- It can become a habit, a habitual question that we ask ourselves.
- Whatever it is that you practice doing will become habitual to you.
- It forces you to become a habitual observer of people's blessings and giftedness.
- Far more than half the population had an intimate, weekly, habitual relationship to the movies.
- Now we all do a lot of things that are habitual.
- But the problem with it is technology has made us become more and more habitual and less and less connected.
- I exercise every day, not just because I should, but because it's habitual for me.
- Give yourself the opportunity to do the things that you want to have become habitual, and those things will become habitual.
- So what he has in mind with this is the possession of say, a virtue or a vice as something that has become habitual within our character.
- There's patterns. They're called habitual patterns. Well, that's a paradigm.
Examples
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Look, everybody's a habitual somethin'.
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They have habitual thoughts, habitual ways, they drive to work, habitual conversations.
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Whatever it is that you practice doing will become habitual to you.
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But the problem with it is technology has made us become more and more habitual and less and less connected.
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Many steps can and should be taken to reduce the health risks of long term or habitual computer use.
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This was his habitual practice, this was his driving habits.
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Through it all, she had managed to project her habitual air of composure.
Fiction book (1990) -
It can become a habit, a habitual question that we ask ourselves.
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Salvation can be yours, if you cleanse yourselves of the habitual lies which have brought you here.
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Jim's motion of picking it off his belt was habitual and instant, like a snake's strike.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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1.0
Happening most of the time in a normal way
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1.0
Happening at fixed times on a schedule
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1.0
Happening often or seen in many places
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1.0
Ordinary clothes or things used in daily life, not for special occasions
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1.0
Happening often or many times
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3.5
Something done because of tradition or habit
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5.4
Having a bad habit that lasts a long time and is hard to change
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5.3
Continuing for a long time and often returning
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4.7
Happening again and again, often at regular times
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8.4
Having a long habit of doing something that is hard to change
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8.2
Common events or things that happen every day
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9.9
A usual way of doing things or behaving
Happens again and again over time
Antonyms
Compounds
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7.1
A person who often commits the same kind of crime and is arrested many times
How Frequent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Habitual comes from the simple word habit, which is from an old Latin root habere meaning 'to have' and the related habitare meaning 'to live'. So habitual describes something you do regularly or in the usual way.