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habitual
English
Etymology
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English habitual (“of one's inherent disposition”), from Medieval Latin habitu?lis (“customary; habitual”), from Latin habitus (“character; disposition; habit; physical or emotional condition; attire, dress”) + -?lis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship); analysable as habit +? -ual. Habitus is derived from habe? (“to have; to hold; to own; to possess”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?eh?b?- (“to grab, take”)) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??b?.t??.?l/, /h??b?.t?w?l/, /-tj?-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /h??b?.t??.?l/, /h??b?.t?(w)?l/
- Hyphenation: ha?bit?u?al, ha?bit?ual
Adjective
habitual (comparative more habitual, superlative most habitual)
- Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.
- Regular or usual.
- Synonyms: accustomed, customary
- Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.
- (grammar) Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.
- Synonym: consuetudinal
Alternative forms
- habituall (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
habitual (plural habituals)
- (colloquial) One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender.
- (grammar) A construction representing something done habitually.
Translations
References
Further reading
- habit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?.bi.tu?al/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /a.bi.tu?al/
Adjective
habitual (masculine and feminine plural habituals)
- habitual; usual
Derived terms
- habitualment
Further reading
- “habitual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician
Adjective
habitual m or f (plural habituais)
- habitual
- common
Portuguese
Adjective
habitual m or f (plural habituais, comparable)
- habitual (behaving in a regular manner, as a habit)
- habitual (recurring, or that is performed over and over again)
Related terms
- hábito
Romanian
Etymology
From French habituel.
Adjective
habitual m or n (feminine singular habitual?, masculine plural habituali, feminine and neuter plural habituale)
- usual
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin habitu?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abi?twal/, [a.??i?t?wal]
Adjective
habitual (plural habituales)
- habitual
Noun
habitual m (plural habituales)
- (Louisiana) beans
Derived terms
- habitualmente
Related terms
- hábito
- habituar
Further reading
- “habitual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
habitual From the web:
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- what habitual offenders
threadbare
English
Etymology
thread +? bare
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????db??(?)/
Adjective
threadbare (comparative more threadbare, superlative most threadbare)
- (of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show
- 1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Book 1, Chapter 9
- Such threadbare coats and trousers, such fusty gowns and shawls, such squashed hats and bonnets, such boots and shoes, such umbrellas and walking-sticks, never were seen in Rag Fair.
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
- Unkempt, in threadbare clothes, with holed shoes and sun-cured hide, my costume is permanent: the traveler, the man from far away.
- 1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Book 1, Chapter 9
- damaged or shabby
- Holy Virgin stood in the main Convent of Glatz, in rather a threadbare condition, when the Prussians first approached; the Jesuits, and ardently Orthodox of both sexes, flagitating Heaven and her with their prayers, that she would vouchsafe to keep the Prussians out.
- (of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material
- banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hackneyed
Translations
threadbare From the web:
- what's threadbare mean
- threadbare what does it means
- what does threadbare mean
- what is threadbare analysis
- what is threadbare clothing
- what does threadbare
- what causes threadbare carpet
- what does threadbare juggler mean
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