habitual

Meaning of habitual

adjective
  1. done constantly or as a habit.
    his habitual use of heroin
    this pattern of behaviour can become habitual

late Middle English (in the sense ‘part of one's character’): from medieval Latin habitualis, from habitus ‘condition, appearance’ (see habit).

Information about habitual

Hyphenation of habitual

ha-bit-ual

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • habitual is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

habitual synonyms

Meaning accustomed:

accustomed, customary, wonted

Meaning confirmed:

confirmed, inveterate

Meaning occurring continuously over a period of time:

constant

Meaning continuing to exist or occur over a prolonged period:

persistent

Meaning forming a sequence in which the same action or event is repeated frequently:

continual

Meaning forming an unbroken whole; without interruption:

continuous

Meaning occurring repeatedly; so frequent as to seem endless and uninterrupted:

perpetual

Meaning occurring often or repeatedly:

recurrent

Meaning done or occurring again several times in the same way:

repeated

Meaning (of a person) doing something often; habitual:

frequent

Meaning endless or apparently endless (often used hyperbolically):

interminable

Meaning (of something regarded as unpleasant) continuing without pause or interruption:

incessant

Meaning constant and unending:

ceaseless

Meaning having or seeming to have no end or limit:

endless

Meaning unceasingly intense:

relentless

Meaning not yielding in strength, severity, or determination:

unrelenting

Meaning never relaxing or slackening; incessant:

unremitting

Meaning continuing for an extended period or without interruption:

sustained

Meaning not weakening or losing intensity:

unabating

Meaning lasting or existing forever; without end:

eternal

habitual antonyms

Meaning not occurring often; rare:

infrequent

Translation of habitual

Words that rhyme with habitual

actual, affectual, artefactual, artifactual, aspectual, autointellectual, bipunctual, conflictual, contactual, contractual, counterfactual, delictual, effectual, factual, hyperintellectual, impactual, impunctual, ineffectual, instinctual, intellectual, lectual, luctual, mechanicointellectual, nonactual, noncontractual, nonfactual, noninstinctual, nonintellectual, nonpunctual, overintellectual, precontractual, preeffectual, prefectual, preintellectual, prepunctual, pseudointellectual, punctual, revictual, superintellectual, supraintellectual, tactual, unactual, uneffectual, unfactual, unintellectual, unpunctual, untactual, victual, nonperpetual, perpetual

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