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inveterate
Meaning: firmly established by long habit
inveterate in a sentence
How inveterate is used in real sentences:
An inveterate reader, Marco carried a book everywhere.
As an inveterate optimist, she expected every problem to improve.
“Their resistance reflected an inveterate habit of treating compromise as betrayal, and both groups would ostracize members who socialized with the opposition.”
— from the passage Clay and Conviction
“By the final curtain, however, the audience was cheering, and even an inveterate opponent who had condemned new operas for decades admitted the prison aria moved him.”
— from the passage An Opera by Post
Synonyms for inveterate
Other words for inveterate — habitual, chronic and entrenched — carry the same meaning.
- habitual
- chronic
- entrenched
Antonyms of inveterate
Words that mean the opposite of inveterate:
Where it comes from
From Latin inveterare, meaning 'to make old.'
Memory hook
INVETERATE sounds like 'in veteran': a veteran habit has been around a long time.
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