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wonted

UK/ˈwəʊntɪd//ˈwɔntɪd/

wonted adjective: usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.

Adjective

wonted (comparative more wonted, superlative most wonted)

  1. Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.
    • They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in...1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, pages 370–371
    • Rose Villa has once again resumed its wonted appearance; the dining-room furniture has been replaced; the tables are as nicely polished as formerly; the horsehair chairs are ranged against the wall, as regularly as ever [...]1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC

wonted meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

wonted in Urdu

عادی, خوگر, مانوس

wonted in Malayalam

habitual, customary, usual
വഴക്കമായ, നടപ്പായ, ആചാരമായ, പതിവുള്ള, കീഴ്നടപ്പായ, മാമൂലായ

Examples of wonted in a sentence

  • He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
  • Superficially, the affairs of 'Every Other Week' settled into their wonted form again, and for Fulkerson they seemed thoroughly reinstated.1889, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes:

Forms of wonted

comparativemore wonted
superlativemost wonted

Origin of wonted

From Middle English woonted (“usual, customary”), from wont (“custom, habit, practice”), alteration of wone (“custom, habit, practice”), from Old English wuna (“custom, habit, practice; usual, wonted”), from Proto-Germanic *wunô (“custom, practice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”). Cognate with Old Frisian wona, wuna (“custom”), Old High German giwona (“custom”). More at wont, wone.

Words formed from wonted

Questions about wonted

What does wonted mean?
Wonted means usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.
What is wonted in Urdu?
Wonted in Urdu is عادی, خوگر, مانوس. See Wonted meaning in Urdu.
How do you use wonted in a sentence?
He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
What part of speech is wonted?
Wonted is an adjective.
How do you pronounce wonted?
Wonted is pronounced /ˈwəʊntɪd/ (UK).

Words near wonted in the dictionary

  1. wonsam
  2. Wonsan
  3. Wonston
  4. wont
  5. wontcha
  6. wonted
  7. wontedly
  8. wontedness
  9. Wonthaggi
  10. wonting
  11. wontish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wonted (page history and authors); wonted (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wonted (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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