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    wonted
    /ˈwəʊntɪd/

    adjective

    • 1. habitual; usual: literary "the place had sunk back into its wonted quiet"

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  2. The meaning of WONTED is usual or ordinary especially by reason of established habit. How to use wonted in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Wonted.

  3. pro forma. regulation. rule. surprise, surprise idiom. See more results » (Definition of wonted from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of wonted. wonted. As it is, that historiography is likely to carry on in its wonted way. From the Cambridge English Corpus.

  4. Wonted definition: accustomed; habituated; used.. See examples of WONTED used in a sentence.

  5. adjective [ before noun ] formal us / ˈwoʊn.t̬ɪd / uk / ˈwəʊn.tɪd / Add to word list. usual: He replied sharply, and without his wonted courtesy. Synonyms. accustomed. customary. habitual formal. usual. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Habitual and customary. accustomed. all in a day's work idiom. as a (general) rule idiom.

  6. Synonyms for WONTED: usual, customary, ordinary, conventional, normal, commonplace, typical, characteristic; Antonyms of WONTED: unwonted, abnormal, deviant, irregular, atypical, unusual, aberrant, anomalous

  7. adjective. commonly used or practiced; usual. “with her wonted candor”. synonyms: accustomed, customary, habitual. usual. occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.

  8. noun. Word origin. ME: see , wont noun & -ed. Word Frequency. wonted in American English. (ˈwɔntɪd, ˈwoun-, ˈwʌn-) adjective. 1. accustomed; habituated; used. 2. customary, habitual, or usual. He took his wonted place in the library.

  9. Define wonted. wonted synonyms, wonted pronunciation, wonted translation, English dictionary definition of wonted. adj. Accustomed; usual: striding along with her wonted purposefulness. wont′ed·ly adv. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition....

  10. 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", also "usual, wonted" ), from Proto-Germanic *wunô (“custom, practice" ), from Proto-Indo-European *wenÉ™- (“to wish, love" ).

  11. Jun 2, 2024 · wonted (comparative more wonted, superlative most wonted) Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.