Synonyms of the word habit


HABITABUSE - APPAREL - ATTIRE - CLOTHE - CUSTOM - DRESS - ENCLOTHE - GARB - GARMENT - HABILITATE - MISUSE - RAIMENT - TOG - TRADITION - USAGE - USANCE - USE - WONT

habit

  • n. An action done on a regular basis.
  • n. An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
  • n. A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.
  • n. A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity.
  • n. (archaic) Outward appearance; attire; dress.
  • n. (botany, mineralogy) Form of growth or general appearance of a variety or species of plant or crystal.
  • n. An addiction.
  • v. To clothe.
  • v. (archaic) To inhabit.

abuse

  • n. Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice…
  • n. Misuse; improper use; perversion.
  • n. (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
  • n. Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
  • n. (now rare) Catachresis.
  • n. Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
  • n. Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a…
  • v. (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose…
  • v. (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
  • v. (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner…
  • v. (transitive) To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of…
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To violate; defile; to rape.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse.

apparel

  • n. Clothing.
  • n. A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
  • n. (nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
  • v. (transitive) To dress or clothe; to attire.
  • v. (transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental.

attire

  • n. (clothing) One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.
  • n. (heraldry) The single horn of a deer or stag.
  • v. To dress or garb.

clothe

  • v. (transitive) To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
  • v. (figuratively) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.

custom

  • n. Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice;…
  • n. Traditional beliefs or rituals.
  • n. Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases…
  • n. (law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent;…
  • n. (obsolete) Familiar acquaintance; familiarity.
  • n. The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
  • adj. Created under particular specifications, specially to fit one's needs: specialized, unique, custom-made.
  • adj. Own, personal, not standard or premade.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To make familiar; to accustom.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with customers.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To pay the customs of.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To have a custom.

dress

  • n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
  • n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
  • n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
  • n. A dress rehearsal.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
  • v. To adorn, ornament.
  • v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
  • v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
  • v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
  • v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
  • v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
  • v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
  • v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
  • v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
  • v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

enclothe

  • v. (transitive) To cover with clothing.

garb

  • n. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
  • n. A type of dress or clothing.
  • n. (figuratively) A guise, external appearance.
  • v. (transitive) To dress in garb.
  • n. (heraldry) A wheat sheaf.
  • n. A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.

garment

  • n. A single item of clothing.

habilitate

  • adj. (obsolete) Qualified or entitled.
  • v. European institutions of higher education: To qualify as an instructor or professor. Usually associated…

misuse

  • n. An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something.
  • v. (transitive) To use (something) incorrectly.
  • v. (transitive) To abuse or mistreat (something or someone).
  • v. (transitive) To rape (a woman); later more generally, to sexually abuse (someone).
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To abuse verbally, to insult.

raiment

  • n. (archaic or literary) Clothing, garments, dress, material.

tog

  • n. A cloak.
  • n. A coat.
  • n. A unit of thermal resistance, being ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces…
  • v. (transitive) To dress (often with up or out).
  • adv. (knitting) Abbreviation of together.

tradition

  • n. A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing…
  • n. A commonly held system.
  • n. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
  • v. (obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

usage

  • n. The manner or the amount of using; use.
  • n. Habit or accepted practice.
  • n. (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's…
  • n. (obsolete) The treatment of someone or something.

usance

  • n. The length of time permitted for the payment of a bill of exchange.
  • n. Use.
  • n. Customary or habitual usage.
  • n. The interest paid on a borrowed sum, usury.

use

  • n. The act of using.
  • n. (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
  • n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
  • n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
  • n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
  • n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
  • n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
  • n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward…
  • v. To accustom; to habituate.
  • v. (reflexive, obsolete) To become accustomed (to), to accustom oneself (to).
  • v. (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
  • v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.
  • v. (transitive, often with up) To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing.
  • v. (transitive) To exploit.
  • v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
  • v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do.
  • v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
  • v. (transitive, with auxiliary could) To need; to benefit from.
  • v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.

wont

  • n. (archaic) One's habitual way of doing things; custom, practice.
  • adj. (archaic) Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something).
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).

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