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Definitions: Habitually |
HabituallyAdverb1. According to routine or established practice; "he routinely parked in a no-parking zone". 2. According to habit or custom; "her habitually severe expression"; "he habitually keeps his office door closed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "habitually" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonym: HabituallySynonym: routinely (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impulse | Adverb: habitually; Adjective: always; (uniformly). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Habitually |
| English words defined with "habitually": alcoholic ♦ Besetting, Blink-eyed, boozer ♦ Caterpillar hunter, cleanly, Common informer, congregation ♦ dipsomaniac, Diving beetle, doubter ♦ faithful, first-nighter, fold, frequent, fretful, froward, frowsy, frowzy ♦ gloomy Gus ♦ headstrong, honest, House spider ♦ lush ♦ Mandragorite, migrant, migratory, Mucous membranes, myrmecophile ♦ Nonphotobiotic ♦ picklepuss, poser, poseur, pothead, pouter, Prayerless ♦ querulous ♦ reserved ♦ sceptic, scofflaw, Sea fowl, self-willed, Silentious, skeptic, slovenly, soaker, Sober-minded, sourpuss, souse, speed freak, Stone Age, stoop, stooper, sundowner ♦ taciturn, Tosspot, Tree mouse, Tubicolae ♦ use ♦ veracious ♦ Water spider, whiney, whining, whiny, wilful, willful. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "habitually": Asylee ♦ CHAFO, Country of - ♦ flamer ♦ phrase-monger, Phreatophyte ♦ Usenet Death Penalty. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Hence, they habitually appeal to society at large, without distinction of class; nay, by preference, to the ruling class. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Czecho-Slovaks who are German nationals and are habitually resident in Germany will have a similar right to opt for Czecho-Slovak nationality. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Their voices came down, afar and indistinctly, from the upper heights where they habitually dwelt. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He smiled habitually as a matter of business, and tried to be polite to everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused a penny. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Civil Liberties | Venezuela | On June 12, the Supreme Court denied Santana's request, stating that the media and those who habitually express themselves through the media do not have a right to reply, because "the right to reply and correction has been granted only to those who receive information, not to those who supply it." Santana announced that he would appeal this ruling to the IACHR; the appeal was pending at year's end. (references) |
Human Rights | Nepal | According to human rights activists, the arresting policeman usually is in plain clothes, and police habitually deny any knowledge of the re-arrest or of the subject's whereabouts. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | Prisoners told the investigators that they were used habitually as labor for others and as workers on construction projects for certain officials, without pay or other compensation. (references) | |
Women | Chile | Police habitually round up prostitutes (usually as a result of complaints by residents of the neighborhood) and accuse them of "offenses against morality" which can lead to a $75 (50,000 pesos) fine or 5 days in prison. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Habitually" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Habitually" is used about 214 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 214 | 20,696 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "habitually": ad habitually. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "habitually"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zakonisht (as a general rule, as a rule, commonly, generally, ordinarily, regularly, usually), si rregull (as a rule), rëndom (not infrequently). (various references) | |
Arabic | كالعادة, على نحو ثابت (indelible, stand up), بإعتياد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обичайно (as a general rule, as a rule, usually), обикновено (as a general rule, as a rule, commonly, generally, mostly, normally, ordinarily, plainly, usually), постоянно (constantly, ever, every moment, invariably, minutely, perennially, permanently, steadily, uniformly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 日常地. (various references) | |
Czech | zpravidla (as a general rule, as a rule, usually), obvykle (as a rule, generally, usually). (various references) | |
Dutch | Verdrag inzake de bevoegdheid,het toepasselijk recht,de erkenning,de tenuitvoerlegging en de samenwerking op het gebied van ouderlijke verantwoordelijkheid en maatregelen ter bescherming van kinderen,op voorwaarde dat het kind gewoonlijk in een lidstaat v (Applicable law, Convention on Jurisdiction, Enforcement and Cooperation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children, provided that the child concerned is habitually resident in a Member State, Recognition). (various references) | |
French | habituellement, ordinairement, d'habitude. (various references) | |
German | gewohnt (accustomed, customary, dwelt, familiar, habitual, used, used to, usual, wont, wonted), gewöhnlich (common, commonly, conveniently, customary, everyday, generally, low, low-bred, normally, ordinarily, ordinary, ornery, regular, run-off-the-mill, simple, usual, usually, vulgar, vulgarly). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כמ "'ו, כר'יל (as usual). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szokásos módon, szokás szerint (as usual, commonly). (various references) | |
Irish | bhíonn (are habitually, is). (various references) | |
Italian | abitualmente (regularly, usually). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 普段 (always, ordinarily, usually), 日 (normally), 日"ろ (normally). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひ"ろ (normally), ふ " (always, constant, constantly, continually, ordinarily, persistent, unremitting, usually). (various references) | |
Korean | 습관성 으로. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abituallyhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | habitualmente (ordinarily, still, usually). (various references) | |
Romanian | obişnuit (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, customarily, customary, frequent, frequently, habitual, habitue, normal, ordinary, regular, rife, routine, standard, used to, usual, usually, wonted, workaday), de obicei (commonly, for the most part, ordinarily). (various references) | |
Russian | привычно, по привычке. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uobičajeno (commonly). (various references) | |
Spanish | habitualmente. (various references) | |
Swedish | ständigt (always, at every turn, ever, incessantly, invariably), jämt (always, every time, for ever, forever). (various references) | |
Thai | อย่างเป็นประจำ. (various references) | |
Ukranian | звично (normally), звичайно (absolutely, admittedly, as a rule, assuredly, certainly, clearly, commonly, definitely, familiarly, generally, mostly, natch, naturally, normally, of course, on course, ordinarily, sure, sure thing, surely, usually, vulgarly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adito, de more, visita, visitaberis, visitabis, visitabit, visitabitur, visitabo, visitandas, visitandum, visitans, visitare, visitarent, visitaret, visitari, visitas, visitasset, visitasti, visitastis, visitat, visitata, visitator, visitaverit, visitavi, visitavit, visitem, visitemus, visitent, visites, visitet, visitetur. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Habitually" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: habituall. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "habitually" (pronounced hubi"khuwulē or hubi"khuwlē) |
| 5 | -kh uw u l ē | conceptually, contractually, factually, intellectually, mutually, perpetually, virtually. |
| 4 | -uw u l ē | annually, continually, gradually, individually, manually, semiannually, sexually. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abnormally, abysmally, accidentally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, anencephaly, angrily, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artfully, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, blissfully, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, carefully, casually, centrally, cerebrally, cheerfully, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, delightfully, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, diurnally, dorsally, dreadfully, dutifully, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, faithfully, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, fitfully, florally, forcefully, formally, fractionally, frantically, frightfully, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, gainfully, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, gleefully, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gracefully, gratefully, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, helpfully, hermetically, historically, homily, hopefully, horizontally, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, jauntily, journalistically, joyfully, judicially, lawfully, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manfully, marginally, masterfully, materially, mathematically, meaningfully, medicinally, mentally, mercifully, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, painfully, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, peacefully, perennially, periodically, peripherally, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, pitifully, playfully, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, purposefully, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ritualistically, romantically, royally, ruefully, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, sequentially, serenely, severally, skeptically, skillfully, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, successfully, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactfully, tactically, tangentially, tastefully, tearfully, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, testily, thankfully, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, thoughtfully, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, truthfully, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unlawfully, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unsuccessfully, unusually, usefully, usually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, wittily, wobbly, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-h-i-l-l-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: habitual. | |
-3 letters: bathyal, halibut, laithly. | |
-4 letters: ablaut, abulia, aliyah, hiatal, labial, tabuli, thalli, thulia, yautia. | |
-5 letters: ahull, aliya, allay, alula, baith, bally, bialy, billy, built, bulla, bully, butyl, habit, hilly, labia, laith, laity, lathi, lathy, tabla, tally, thill, thuya, tubal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 62 69 74 75 61 6C 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- -... .. - ..- .- .-.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01100010 01101001 01110100 01110101 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a b i t u a l l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0062 0069 0074 0075 0061 006C 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42676875868767787891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Historic | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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