habit

Meaning of habit

noun
  1. a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up.
    he has an annoying habit of interrupting me
    good eating habits
    we stayed together out of habit
  2. a long, loose garment worn by a member of a religious order.
    nuns in long brown habits, black veils, and sandals
  3. a person's health or constitution.
    a victim to a consumptive habit
verb, past participle
  1. be dressed or clothed.
    a boy habited as a serving lad

Middle English: from Old French abit, habit, from Latin habitus ‘condition, appearance’, from habere ‘have, consist of’. The term originally meant ‘dress, attire’, later coming to denote physical or mental constitution.

Information about habit

Hyphenation of habit

habit

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • habit is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

habit synonyms

Meaning wont:

wont

Meaning use:

use, wont

Meaning the customary, habitual, or expected procedure or way of doing of something:

practice

Meaning a thing that one does habitually:

custom

Meaning a repeated decorative design:

pattern

Meaning a sequence of actions regularly followed:

routine

Meaning a particular procedure by which something is done; a manner or way:

style

Meaning behaviour that is considered acceptable or polite to most members of a society:

convention

Meaning a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organization or individual:

policy

Meaning one's characteristic or habitual manner of behaviour or expression:

way

Meaning a way in which a thing is done or happens:

manner

Meaning a way or manner in which something occurs or is experienced, expressed, or done:

mode

Meaning something that is usual, typical, or standard:

norm

Meaning a long-established custom or belief that has been passed on from one generation to another:

tradition

Meaning the normal or customary state of things:

rule

Meaning habitual or customary practice, especially as creating a right, obligation, or standard:

usage

Meaning an inclination towards a particular characteristic or type of behaviour:

tendency

Meaning an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way:

propensity

Meaning a person's natural tendency or urge to act or feel in a particular way; a disposition:

inclination

Meaning a natural talent or inclination:

bent

Meaning a tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition towards a particular thing:

proclivity

Meaning liability to suffer from or experience something disagreeable; susceptibility:

proneness

Meaning a person's inherent qualities of mind and character:

disposition

Meaning a liability or tendency to suffer from a particular condition, hold a particular attitude, or act in a particular way:

predisposition

Meaning a habitual gesture or way of speaking or behaving:

mannerism

Meaning a peculiar aspect of a person's character or behaviour:

quirk

Meaning a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify them:

characteristic

Meaning a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character:

foible

Meaning a peculiar or characteristic habit or mannerism:

trick

Meaning a distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person:

trait

Meaning a distinctive or peculiar feature or characteristic of a place or thing:

idiosyncrasy

Meaning a strange or unusual feature or habit:

peculiarity

Meaning the state, fact, quality, or condition of being singular:

singularity

Meaning a strange or peculiar person or thing:

oddity

Meaning the quality of being eccentric:

eccentricity

Meaning a distinctive attribute or aspect of something:

feature

Translation of habit

Anagrams of habit

baith

Words that rhyme with habit

abit, gigabit, megabit, Wahabit, cohabit, coinhabit, dishabit, disinhabit, inhabit, posthabit, preinhabit, reinhabit, underhabit, unhabit, arabit, crabit, morabit, terabit, metabit

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