habitual

Meaning

Adj

1. Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.
2. Regular or usual.
3. Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.
4. Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.

Noun

1. (colloquial) One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender.
2. A construction representing something done habitually.

Synonyms

customary

usual

conventional

accustomed

wonted

regular

common

ordinary

normal

routine

traditional

chronic

used to

familiar

confirmed

special

favourite

habitually

everyday

chosen

inveterate

run-of-the-mill

stock

trivial

uncomplicated

uneventful

unexceptional

unremarkable

unsophisticated

unspectacular

vanilla

wont

workaday

common use

run-of-the-mine

cusmary

consuetudinal

addicted

always

anonymous

beaten

commonly used

commonplace

constant

consuetudinarily

consuetudinary

customarily

durative

extra

general

idiomatic

instinctive

often

periodic

plain

repetitive

routinely

Hyphenated as

ha‧bit‧u‧al

Pronounced as (IPA)

/həˈbɪ.tʃʊ.əl/

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English habitual (“of one's inherent disposition”), from Medieval Latin habituālis (“customary; habitual”), from Latin habitus (“character; disposition; habit; physical or emotional condition; attire, dress”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship); analysable as habit + -ual. Habitus is derived from habeō (“to have; to hold; to own; to possess”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”)) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).
The noun is derived from the adjective.