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accustomary

accustomary adjective: usual; customary.

Adjective

accustomary (comparative more accustomary, superlative most accustomary)

  1. Usual; customary.
    • Chriſt in the fifth of Matthew forbiddeth not all kind of ſwearing, but the ordinary and accuſtomary ſwearing then in uſe among the Jewes, and allowed by the Scribes and Phariſees, who erroneouſly conceived, that ſwearing by heaven and earth, or Ieruſalem, or any creature, was no taking Gods name...1647, Daniel Featley, The dippers dipt. Or, The Anabaptiſts Duck’d and Plung’d over Head and Ears, at a Diſputation in Southwark […], 5th edition, London: […] N.B. and Richard Royſton […], page 134
    • Of every accomplishment accustomary to my sex, I was Mistress.1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia

accustomary meaning in Tamil and Urdu

accustomary in Tamil

பழக்கமான இயல்புடைய

accustomary in Urdu

حسب معمول, حسب رواج, حسب دستور, معمولاً

Forms of accustomary

comparativemore accustomary
superlativemost accustomary

Origin of accustomary

From accustom + -ary.

Words formed from accustomary

Questions about accustomary

What does accustomary mean?
Accustomary means usual; customary.
What is accustomary in Tamil?
Accustomary in Tamil is பழக்கமான இயல்புடைய. See Accustomary meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is accustomary?
Accustomary is an adjective.

Words near accustomary in the dictionary

  1. accustomable
  2. accustomably
  3. accustomance
  4. accustomances
  5. accustomarily
  6. accustomary
  7. accustomate
  8. accustomation
  9. accustomed
  10. accustomedly
  11. accustomedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accustomary (page history and authors); accustomary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accustomary (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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