habituall

Adjective

habitual (comparative more habitual, superlative most habitual)

1. Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.
   • Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust.

   Synonyms:

   perennial, repeating, repetitious, monotonous, recurrent, recurring, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitive

2. Regular or usual.
   • Professor Franklein took his habitual seat at the conference table.

   Synonyms:

   accustomed, customary, general, average, basic, bog-standard, common, common as bums, common as dirt, common as muck

3. Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.
   • He’s a habitual chain-smoker.
4. Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.
   • In English, for instance, the Habitual Aspect (used to construction) can combine freely with Progressive Aspect, to give such forms as used to be playing.1976, Bernard Comrie, “Perfective and Imperfective”, in Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics; 2), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire...

   Synonyms:

   consuetudinal

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