habitually
10
3.7
- adverb
- /həˈbɪtʃuəli/
:
habitualmente
- They habitually read before bedtime to help relax.
- habitually wears
- think habitually
- habitually gets
You won't really enjoy the fruit of your labours if habitually you cannot be present in the moment.
- You won't really enjoy the fruit of your labours if habitually you cannot be present in the moment.
- Notice the ones you you habitually ask and borrow shamelessly from other people's questions.
- So not just to read the Guardian or the Telegraph, but to dip into the source that you don't habitually read.
- The second habit is a mindset that I would tell myself, I would habitually remind myself of this anytime I got invited somewhere.
- And so he's in the, he's habitually in the weeds.
- It's, it's not to the point that it's really ever been a problem habitually.
Examples
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This guy is habitually late.
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She habitually jogs around the park at dawn.
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Well, our generation is still habitually playing game A, and so it's very easy to fall into those old habits.
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People still habitually, addictively check their e-mail.
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When it comes to the Middle East, the lion's share of American attention habitually goes to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Academic text (1994) -
A typical geek and netizen, Alex habitually spent all his free time at the computer.
Fiction book (2000) -
We think about the object of our obsession incessantly, plan for it, and habitually participate in it.
Academic text (1993) -
The workaholic, like other addicts, loses control of his or her life and becomes habitually dependent on work.
Academic text (1993) -
Then the Syrian media toned down their habitually vicious anti-American rhetoric, and diplomatic contacts increased steadily.
Academic text (1991) -
He habitually drinks coffee every morning before work.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Happens many times
386
1.0
Often at the same or fixed times
146
3.5
In a regular way without much thought
91
2.3
Happens often at set times
37
3.6
Happens every day for a long time in the same boring way
33
3.4
Every day for a long time without any change
7
3.9
In the usual way people do because of tradition
1
8.0
In a regular way that follows the same routine every time
1
4.3
Happens again and again at regular times
In a way that shows a long habit that is hard to change
Antonyms
How Habitual
740
1.0
10
3.7
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
438
2.0
539
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Habitually comes from the simple word habit, which in turn comes from the old Latin root habere meaning 'to have' or 'to hold'. Think of a habit as something you 'have' again and again, so to do something habitually is to do it regularly as your usual way.