Roget's Thesaurus

#613. Habit

Nouns

habit, habitude; assuetude, assuefaction, wont; run, way. common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things; matter of course; beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground. prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette etc. (gentility) 852; order of the day, cry; conformity etc. 82; consuetude, dustoor. one's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae [Lat.]; laudator temporis acti [Lat.]. rule, standing order, precedent, routine; red-tape, red-tapism; pipe clay; rut, groove. cacoethes [Lat.]; bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit etc.; addiction, trick. training etc. (education) 537; seasoning, second nature, acclimatization; knack etc.

Verbs

be wont etc. adj.. fall into a rut, fall into a custom etc. (conform to) 82; tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten; stare super antiquas vias [Lat.]; move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way. habituate, inure, harden, season, caseharden; accustom, familiarize; naturalize, acclimatize; keep one's hand in; train etc. (educate) 537. get into the way, get into the knack of; learn etc. 539; cling to, adhere to; repeat etc. 104; acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick; addict oneself to, take to, get into. be habitual etc. adj.; prevail; come into use, become a habit, take root; gain upon one, grow upon one.

Adjectives

habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed etc. v.; 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. conformable. etc. 82; according to use, according to custom, according to routine; in vogue, in fashion, in, with it; fashionable etc. (genteel) 852. wont; used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated etc. v.; in the habit of; habitue; at home in etc. (skillful) 698; seasoned; imbued with; devoted to, wedded to. hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted, permanent, inveterate, besetting; naturalized; ingrained etc. (intrinsic) 5.

Adverbs

habitually etc. adj.; always etc. (uniformly) 16. as usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards; more suo, more solito [Lat.]; ex more. as a rule, for the most part; usually, generally, typically etc. adj.; most often, most frequently.

Phrases

cela s'entend [Fr.]; abeunt studia in mores [Lat.]; adeo in teneris consuescere multum est [Lat.]; consuetudo quasi altera natura [Lat.] [Cicero]; hoc erat in more majorum [Lat.]; How use doth breed a habit in a man! "[Two Gentlemen]; magna est vis consuetudinis [Lat.]; morent fecerat usus [Lat.] [Ovid].