Inveterate
[ɪn'vet(ə)rət] or [ɪn'vɛtərət]
Definition
(a.) Old; long-established.
(a.) Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse.
(a.) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
(a.) Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
(v. t.) To fix and settle by long continuance.
Typed by Leigh
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Obstinate, besetting, chronic, deep-seated, long established.[2]. Habituated, habitual, accustomed, confirmed, hardened.
Checker: Zelig
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Confirmed, incarnate, ingrained, deep-rooted, chronic, habitual
ANT:Incipient, undeveloped, unformed
Typed by Alphonse
Definition
adj. firmly established by long continuance: deep-rooted confirmed in any habit: violent.—adv. Invet′erately.—ns. Invet′erateness Invet′eracy firmness produced by long use or continuance.
Edited by Gene
Examples
- The greed of Germany in 1871 had made France her inveterate enemy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Through his most inveterate purposes, the dead Jailer of Harmony Jail had known these two faithful servants to be honest and true. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His most inveterate enemy was a certain Anytus, whose son, a devoted disciple of Socrates, had become a hopeless drunkard. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such a reconnaissance, like that of a coming field of battle, was invaluable, and may help give a further idea of the man's inveterate care for the minutiae of things. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The subject was a German who kept a liquor-shop and was an inveterate drunkard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In the arts we call this inveterate tendency classicalism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But, imbued from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong, and an inveterate hatred of a class, opportunity had developed her into a tigress. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It revived my utmost indignation to find that she was still pursued by this fellow, and I felt inveterate against him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Oh, the hardness of heart of these inveterate men! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Edited by Gene