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adjective
- 1. having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change: "an inveterate gambler" Similar
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INVETERATE definition: 1. someone who does something very often and cannot stop doing it: 2. someone who does something…. Learn more.
inveterate applies to a habit, attitude, or feeling of such long existence as to be practically ineradicable or unalterable. an inveterate smoker. confirmed implies a growing stronger and firmer with time so as to resist change or reform. a confirmed bachelor.
Now it simply refers to something that is a signature habit with a person. If you’ve loved books ever since you were a toddler, and you regularly check out big stacks from the library, you’re an inveterate reader. And if you're an inveterate nail-biter, nothing can cure you of the habit.
Inveterate definition: settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like. See examples of INVETERATE used in a sentence.
adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe someone as, for example, an inveterate liar or smoker, you mean that they have lied or smoked for a long time and are not likely to stop doing it. ...an inveterate gambler. ...the inveterate laziness of these boys.
adj. 1. confirmed in a habit, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler. 2. firmly established by long continuance, as a disease; chronic.
Definition of inveterate adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Inveterate Definition. ĭn-vĕtər-ĭt. Meanings. Synonyms. Sentences. Definition Source. Origin. Adjective. Verb. Filter. adjective. Firmly established over a long period; of long standing; deep-rooted. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Settled in a habit, practice, prejudice, etc.; habitual. Webster's New World. Similar definitions.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English in‧vet‧e‧rate /ɪnˈvetərət/ adjective [ only before noun] written 1 → inveterate liar/smoker/womanizer etc 2 → inveterate fondness/distrust/hatred etc Origin inveterate (1300-1400) Latin past participle of inveterare “to get old”, from vetus “old”.
definition 1: persisting in a habit, action, feeling, or the like. She was an inveterate gossip and could never resist passing on whatever scuttlebutt she chanced to hear.
