Accustomed

Definitions: Accustomed

Accustomed

Adjective

1. (often followed by `to') in the habit of or adapted to; "accustomed to doing her own work"; "I've grown accustomed to her face".

2. Commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "accustomed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Accustomed

Impulse

Adjective: habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; Verb: of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood.

Crosswords: Accustomed

I'm not accustomed to tragedy! (Clone High; writing credit: Damian Chapa)

Or aren't you accustomed to utensils? (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; writing credit: Jules Verne; Earl Felton)

No, but you know, I've grown accustomed to that. (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks)

Ron, I should tell you, most Muggles aren't exactly accustomed to seeing a flying car! (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; writing credit: Steven Kloves)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Accustomed As I Am: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Speaker Or, All You'd Never Guess About Public Speaking (reference)

• Accustomed to Hope: The Episcopal Church on the Mendocino Coast (reference)

• Accustomed to the Dark (reference)

• Our Accustomed Discourse on the Antique: Cesare Gonzaga and Gerolamo Garimberto: Two Renaissance Collectors of Greco-Roman Art (Garland Studies In) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Accustomed to Nothing (reference)

• I've Grown Accustomed to the Bass (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They are hardly to be prevailed with to amend the acknowledged faults in the frame they have been accustomed to. (Second Treatise of Government)

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Slowly, nervously, it entered and settled down in to its accustomed position.

Her face, so long familiar to the townspeople, showed the marble quietude which they were accustomed to behold there.

She was talking to (r)Mademoiselle upon a familiar subject, and one to which the bishop was quite accustomed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A "sleepy" and uncoordinated feeling during the first few days, as the body becomes accustomed - tolerant - to the effects, these feelings diminish. (references)

During the first few days of taking a prescribed CNS depressant, a person usually feels sleepy and uncoordinated, but as the body becomes accustomed to the effects of the drug, these feelings begin to disappear. (references)

Positional preference appears to be a learned behavior among infants from birth to 4 to 6 months of age. The infant, being placed in a back or side position in the newborn nursery, will become accustomed to this position. (references)

Business

Korean consumers are thus accustomed to low electricity bills. (references)

All banks are accustomed to various international banking transactions. (references)

Guatemalan business people are accustomed to doing business with foreign firms. (references)

Civil Liberties

Pakistan

At times landlords and their agents, who have become accustomed to terrorizing with impunity the ordinary citizens living on their lands, retaliate against journalists who report on their actions. (references)

Economic History

Cote D'ivoire

They are accustomed to consumer-oriented commercials and advertising and public service announcements. (references)

Qatar

The business framework to which U.S. firms are accustomed has been developed to a considerable extent in Qatar. (references)

Human Rights

Morocco

Some members of the security forces, long accustomed to indefinite precharge access to detainees, continue to resist the time limits, which were adopted in 1997. The police are required to notify a person's next of kin of an arrest as soon as possible. (references)

Political Economy

BULGARIA

U.S. investors have also found that in general neither remaining state enterprises nor private firms are accustomed to competitive bidding procedures to supply goods and services to these investors within Bulgaria. (references)

COLOMBIA

Economic growth slowed beginning in 1996, until the first recession since 1931 began in late 1998. Colombia's economy picked up again after the 1998-99 recession, the worst in seventy years in a country accustomed to more than forty years of steady growth. (references)

Travel

Mexico

Mexicans are accustomed to smoke and drink freely at business meals. (references)

France

It should be noted that other EU suppliers are accustomed to dealing in the French language. (references)

Guatemala

Many firms are accustomed to working in English, however, correspondence should be in Spanish. (references)

Worker Rights

Panama

However, the lack of enforcement also can be attributed to widely held beliefs that indigenous people are accustomed to poverty and hard work. (references)

Micronesia

For a variety of reasons, including the fact that most private sector employment is in small-scale, family-owned business and that Micronesians are not accustomed to collective action, there are neither associations nor trade unions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "accustomed": accustomed to ♦ be accustomed ♦ be accustomed doing smth. ♦ be accustomed to ♦ be accustomed to do smth. ♦ become accustomed ♦ get accustomed ♦ get accustomed to ♦ get accustomed to smth. ♦ grow accustomed to ♦ make accustomed. Additional references.

Ending with "accustomed": dreadnought-accustomed, over-accustomed, well-accustomed.

Albanian

i zakonshëm (common, common or garden, commonplace, consuetudinary, current, customary, daily, day to day, everyday, familiar, general, habitual, homely, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, ready made, regular, routine, second best, standard, usual, vulgar, wonted, workaday), i mësuar me (used to). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متعود (used, wont), ‏معتاد (customary, frequent, habitual, usual, wonted), ‏مألوف (beaten, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, frequent, habitual, homely, household, ordinary, orthodox, popular, regular, usual, vulgar). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обичаен (common, consuetudinary, customary, familiar, general, habitual, ordinary, regular, stock, usual, wonted), обикновен (average, common, commonplace, everyday, familiar, frequent, homely, humdrum, low, matter of fact, mere, moderate, mundane, ordinary, plain, quiet, regular, routine, run of the mill, simple, trite, trivial, unaffected, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, wonted), привичен (customary, wonted). (various references)

Chinese 

� 惯 (Accustom, Accustoming, Acquainted, Custom, customs). (various references)

Czech

navyklý (habitual). (various references)

Danish

almindelig (common, customary, general, ordinary, universal, used to, usual, wonted, worldwide), vanlig (common, customary, ordinary, used to, usual, wonted), sædvanlig (common, customary, ordinary, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

Dutch

gewoon (common, customary, everyday, normally, ordinary, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

Esperanto

kutima (customary, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

Finnish

tavanomaiset (customary, habitual, usual), tavanmukainen (customary, habitual, usual). (various references)

French

habituel, accoutumé. (various references)

Frisian

gewoan (customary, used to, usual, wonted), bewend (customary, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

German

gewohnt (customary, dwelt, familiar, habitual, habitually, used, used to, usual, wont, wonted), gewöhnt (acclimates, accustoms, conditioned, customized, familiarizes, gets used to, habituates, inures, used), üblich (common, conventional, customary, everyday, general, normal, ordinary, standard, traditional, used to, usual, vulgar, wonted). (various references)

Greek 

συνηθισμένοσ (common, conventional, customary, habitual, ordinary, used to, usual, wont, wonted). (various references)

Hebrew 

מור�'ל (habitual, habituated, used, used to), ר�'יל ל- (familiar, used), ר�'יל (common, habitual, mediocre, ordinary, par, simple, standard, stock, unexceptional, usual, wont, wonted). (various references)

Hungarian

szokásos (customary, habitual, ordinary, regular, ruling, run, usual, wonted). (various references)

Icelandic

venjulegur (common, customary, ordinary, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

Indonesian

pembiasa, familier (intimate), biasa (adjusted, banal, conversant, habitual, lay, ordinary, regular, trivial, usual). (various references)

Italian

consueto (customary, familiar, habitually, used to, usual, wonted), usuale (common, customary, everyday, ordinary, stock, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �馴れ (experienced). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ばなれ (experience, experienced, poise in a critical situation). (various references)

Korean 

습관 (Customary). (various references)

Malay

biasa (common, customary, ordinary, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

Manx

oayllagh (acquainted, au fait, conversant, customary, experienced, familiar, guide, habitual, intimately acquainted, inveterate, knowledgeable, leader, versed, wont), cliaghtit (conditioned, habituated, practised, seasoned). (various references)

Norwegian

vanlig (common, customary, ordinary, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

Papiamen

usual (customary, used to, usual, wonted), komun (common, customary, daily, joint, used to, usual, wonted), hewon (customary, used to, usual, wonted), gewon (customary, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

Pig Latin

accustomeday.(various references)

Polish

przyzwyczaić się. (various references)

Portuguese

acostumado (used to, wont), usual (common, customary, general partnership, habitual, inevitable, ordinary, orthodox, regular, used to, usual, wonted), habitual (acquainted, average, common, customary, frequent, habitual, normal, ordinary, regular, usual, wonted), habituado (habituated, wont). (various references)

Romanian

obişnuit (average, common, commonplace, customarily, customary, frequent, frequently, habitual, habitually, habitue, normal, ordinary, regular, rife, routine, standard, used to, usual, usually, wonted, workaday). (various references)

Russian 

привычный (customary, habitual, wonted). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

naviknut (used to). (various references)

Spanish

acostumbrado (acclimated, acclimatized, customary, habitual, used, usual, wont, wonted). (various references)

Sranan

gwenti (customary, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

Swedish

vanlig (common, customary, familiar, frequent, habitual, ordinary, ornery, plain, regular, straight, unexceptional, used to, usual, wonted), bruklig (customary, ordinary, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

Turkish

alixik (customary, used to, usual, wonted), alelade (common, customary, ordinary, used to, usual, wonted), alışmış (wont), alışkın (trained, used to), alışılmış (consuetudinary, customary, familiar, habitual, set, usual, wonted), alışık (familiar, used to), bayaği (customary, used to, usual, wonted). (various references)

Turkmen 

цwreniюmek (become accustomed, get used to). (various references)

Ukranian 

звичний (chronic, consuetudinary, customary, habitual, normal, old, ordinary, regular, used to, wonted), звичайний (average, common, common or garden, consuetudinary, conventional, customary, everyday, frequent, homely, mediocre, natural, normal, ordinary, positive, regulation, rife, run of the mill, uneventful, unexceptional, usual), звиклий (used, wonted), привчений (housebroke, housebroken). (various references)

Vietnamese 

th� nh thường lệ, quen với; th� nh thói quen. (various references)

Welsh

cynefinol (usual), cynefin (acquainted, familiar, habitat, haunt). (various references)

adsuetus, solitus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "accustomed": accustomedness, accustomednesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "accustomed": disaccustomed, unaccustomed. (additional references)

Words containing "accustomed": unaccustomedly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Accustomed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accostomed, acustome, acustomed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: accosted, accustom, costumed, muscadet, stuccoed.

-3 letters: accused, acetous, coacted, coasted, comates, costume, coteaus, decocts, mucosae, mudcats, scouted.

-4 letters: accost, accuse, acetum, acutes, amused, autoed, cactus, cadets, caecum, cameos, caused, coacts, coated, codecs, comade, comate, comets, comtes, costae, costed, coteau, cuesta, custom, datums, decoct, demast, doumas, ducats, educts, escudo, mascot, masted, meatus, meccas, medusa, moated, modest, moused, mucosa, mucose, mudcat, muscae, muscat, musted, mutase, octads, odeums, ousted, sauced, sauted, stucco, toused.

-5 letters: acmes, acted, acute, adust, amuse, ascot, atoms, autos, cades, cadet, cameo, cames, cased, caste, cates, cause, cecum, cesta, coact, coast, coats, cocas, codas, codec, codes, coeds, comae, comas, comes, comet, comte, cosec, coset, costa, coted, cotes, coude, cusec, cutes, daces, dames, dates, datos, datum, dauts, decos, demos, doats, doest, domes, dotes, douce, douma, doums, douse, ducat, duces, ducts, duets, dumas, educt, escot, maced, maces, mated, mates, mauds, mauts, meads, meats, mecca, meous, moats, modes, modus, moste, motes, moues, mouse, musca, mused, muted, mutes, octad, odeum, outed, sated, satem, sauce, saute, scout, scudo, scuta, scute, secco, sedum, smote, stade, stead, steam, stoae, stoma, sumac, taces, tacos, tamed, tames, teams, toads, toeas, tomes, touse, tsade.

+2 letters: unaccustomed.

+3 letters: disaccustomed.

+4 letters: accustomedness, unaccustomedly.

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