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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
habitual
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a habitual/chronic/inveterate liarformal (= who lies a lot)
▪ Drug users are often habitual liars trying to cover up their addiction.
habitual criminals (=criminals who commit crimes repeatedly)
▪ The new law will ensure that habitual criminals receive tougher punishments than first-time offenders.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
drinker
▪ Johnstone has confronted his fall from grace with the kind of honest self-awareness that is rare in habitual drinkers.
▪ Many habitual drinkers of caffeine-containing beverages find that they must increase their dose to achieve the preferred degree of stimulation.
▪ Blood alcohol levels rise at pretty much the same rate in infrequent and habitual drinkers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ingrained attitudes and habitual ways of thinking are very difficult to change.
▪ It is estimated that as many as half the young men in the community are habitual drug users.
▪ Many of the prisoners are habitual liars.
▪ My father was a habitual gambler, until my mother packed her bags and threatened to leave.
▪ Tony's habitual laziness became even more extreme in winter, and he would sometimes stay in bed until mid afternoon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even close friends considered him a habitual liar.
▪ He watched her intently as she per-formed this habitual act-then climbed into her lap and let her hold him.
▪ It comes easy to the habitual vagrant; it is well-nigh impossible to the inexperienced.
▪ She had applied more make-up than usual but with her habitual restraint.
▪ Soon you will find that you are taking more time to act, instead of reacting with an habitual response.
▪ The habitual violence of the time was tamed somewhat when the Shoguns settled in Kyoto, from 1393 to 1576.
▪ What does seem more difficult to believe, however, is that the practice of carrying firearms was habitual among Hooligans.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Habitual

Habitual \Ha*bit"ual\ (h[.a]*b[i^]t"[-u]*al; 135), a. [Cf. F. habituel, LL. habitualis. See Habit, n.]

  1. Formed or acquired by habit or use.

    An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims.
    --South.

  2. According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant; as, the habitual practice of sin.

    It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common and ordinary blessings.
    --Buckminster.

    Syn: Customary; accustomed; usual; common; wonted; ordinary; regular; familiar. -- Ha*bit"u*al*ly, adv. -- Ha*bit"u*al*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
habitual

mid-15c., from Medieval Latin habitualis "pertaining to habit or dress," from Latin habitus "condition, appearance, dress" (see habit (n.)).

Wiktionary
habitual

a. 1 Behaving in a regular manner, as a habit. 2 Recurring, or that is performed over and over again. 3 regular or usual. alt. 1 Behaving in a regular manner, as a habit. 2 Recurring, or that is performed over and over again. 3 regular or usual.

WordNet
habitual
  1. adj. made a norm or custom or habit; "his habitual practice was to eat an early supper"; "her habitual neatness"

  2. commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor" [syn: accustomed, customary, wonted(a)]

  3. having a habit of long standing; "a chronic smoker" [syn: chronic, confirmed, inveterate(a)]

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Usage examples of "habitual".

His prudence rendered him averse to any great innovation, and though his temper was not very susceptible of zeal or enthusiasm, he always maintained an habitual regard for the ancient deities of the empire.

He was a habitual early riser, like Bayle himself--a relic from military days, it seemed.

The filing of the decree of the Senate had acted like a charm upon our Capo of the Ten: the importance thus accorded to the Ca' Giustiniani soothed every vestige of wounded pride, while the beauty and grace of his prospective daughter-in-law had filled him with a triumph which only the frigid stateliness of his habitual demeanor enabled him to conceal, so great was the revulsion from his former state of feeling.

Whether it was because she doubted my discretion or from habitual reserve, she was so particular that, even when I saw her in bed, my longing eyes never could obtain a sight of anything but her head.

The habitual spectators at the School of Medicine, the College of France, and the Faculty of Sciences, know how experiments are made on the living flesh, how muscles are divided and cut, the nerves wrenched or dilacerated, the bones broken or methodically opened with gouge, mallet, saw, and pincers.

And though perchance thou doest forbear the very act of some sins, yet hast thou in thyself an habitual disposition to them, but that either through fear, or vainglory, or some such other ambitious foolish respect, thou art restrained.

Those who sleep in warm rooms, or spend much of their time in bed, will continue to have congestion of the uterus, and habitual discharges from this enfeebled organ.

Habitual sitting or standing in a leaning posture, or standing upon one foot, thus constantly using one set of the muscles of the back, while the other becomes enfeebled by the lack of exercise, is a common cause of this deformity.

These may be used for dumplings, or as a sudden extempore, but do not let them be habitual.

Rayer, paroxysms of rage, unexpected and unwelcome news, diseases of the scalp such as favus, wounds of the head, habitual headache, over-indulgence of the sexual appetite, mercurial courses too frequently repeated, too great anxiety, etc.

There may have been in the Army some habitual corner loafer, some fistic champion of the bar-room and brothel, some Terror of Plug Uglyville, who was worth the salt in the hard tack he consumed, but if there were, I did not form his acquaintance, and I never heard of any one else who did.

In order to understand the question at issue, it must be observed that the fomes is nothing but a certain inordinate, but habitual, concupiscence of the sensitive appetite, for actual concupiscence is a sinful motion.

Cyrus Harding alone waited with his habitual patience, although his strong mind was exasperated at being confronted with such an inexplicable fact, and he was provoked at himself for allowing a feeling to which he could not give a name, to gain an influence over him.

He was, however, in his personalities, chiefly remarkable for two queer and twinkling little eyes, and for a habitual custom of licking his lips whenever he said any thing of pith or jocosity, or thought that he had done so, which was very often the case.

Shahryar Zahd told us some stories about the adventures of another habitual journeyer who called himself Sindbad the Sailor.