1 [onlybeforenoun] usual or typical of sb/sth:
They waited for his habitual response. * (formal) a person's place of habitual residence * She sat smoking her habitual cigarette.
2 (of an action) done, often in a way that is annoying or difficult to stop:
habitual complaining / interruptions * the habitual use of heroin
3 [onlybeforenoun] (of a person) doing sth that has become a habit and is therefore difficult to stop:
a habitual criminal / drinker / liar
HELPNOTE Some people use an instead of a before habitual and then usually do not pronounce the 'h'. This now sounds old-fashioned.
habitually adverb:
the dark glasses he habitually wore
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for habitual is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is habitual a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, habitual is tagged as adjective.
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