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Inveterate synonyms
ĭn-vĕt'ər-ĭt
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ingrained
Being an element; present in the essence of a thing
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  1. Being an element; present in the essence of a thing
  2. Firmly established, as by long conditioning; deep-seated:
  3. Fixed, established
confirmed
Firmly established, as in a habit or condition; habitual
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  1. Firmly established, as in a habit or condition; habitual
  2. Having been ratified; verified.
  3. Having received the rite of confirmation.
deep-rooted
Well established; long-standing; deep-seated.
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  1. Well established; long-standing; deep-seated.
  2. Alternative form of deep-rooted.
  3. Firmly fixed or established; ingrained
confirmed
Having received Christian confirmation
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  1. Having received Christian confirmation
  2. Firmly established, as in a habit or condition; habitual
  3. Being firmly settled in habit; inveterate.
deep-rooted
Well established; long-standing; deep-seated.
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  1. Well established; long-standing; deep-seated.
  2. Firmly fixed or established; ingrained
  3. Alternative form of deep-rooted.
deep-seated
Deeply rooted; ingrained:
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  1. Deeply rooted; ingrained:
  2. Implanted or firmly established.
  3. Being so far below the surface as to be unsusceptible to superficial examination, study, or treatment:
hard-shell
Having a hard shell
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  1. Having a hard shell
  2. Having a shell not recently molted
  3. Uncompromising; confirmed.
ineradicable
Incapable of being eradicated.
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  1. Incapable of being eradicated.
  2. Not able to be eradicated
  3. That cannot be eradicated
ingrained
Firmly established, as by long conditioning; deep-seated:
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  1. Firmly established, as by long conditioning; deep-seated:
  2. Firmly fixed or established
  3. Being an element; present in the essence of a thing
irradicable
(Rare) Incapable of being rooted out or eradicated.
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  1. (Rare) Incapable of being rooted out or eradicated.
  2. Impossible to uproot or destroy; ineradicable:
set
Ready; prepared:
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  1. Ready; prepared:
  2. Unwilling or very reluctant to change:
  3. Established deliberately; intentional:
chronic
Of long duration; continuing:
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  1. Of long duration; continuing:
  2. Lasting for a long period of time or marked by frequent recurrence, as certain diseases:
  3. Relating to an illness or medical condition that is characterized by long duration or frequent recurrence. Diabetes and hypertension are chronic diseases.
confirmed
Having received the rite of confirmation.
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  1. Having received the rite of confirmation.
  2. Firmly established, as in a habit or condition; habitual
  3. Chronic, as a disease
habitual
Formed or acquired by continual use; done by habit or fixed as a habit; customary
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  1. Formed or acquired by continual use; done by habit or fixed as a habit; customary
  2. Being so by habit:
  3. (Grammar) Designating an action or state that lasts for or is repeated over an extended duration, expressed in English by such means as the simple present tense ( She works downtown ) and the phrase used to ( A factory used to be located at that intersection ).
Find another word for inveterate. In this page you can discover 22 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for inveterate, like: ingrained, confirmed, deep-rooted, chronic, habitual, permanent, confirmed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, entrenched and hard-shell.

Sentence Examples

  • It is only the inveterate habit of reading Isa.

  • In fact, nearly the whole of the region between the Caucasus and the Perso-Turkish frontier on the south, from the Caspian Sea on the one side to the Black Sea on the other, was embroiled in a civil war of the most sanguinary and ruthless character, the inveterate racial animosities of the combatants being in both cases inflamed by religious fanaticism.

  • 'Shaftesbury, doubtless no friendly witness, speaks of him as .an inveterate liar, "proud, ambitious, revengeful, false, prodigal and covetous to the highest degree," 4 and Burnet supports his unfavourable judgment to a great extent.

  • Catherine de Medici, an inveterate match- and the maker, and also uneasy at Philip II.s increasing Nether- power, made advances to Jeanne, proposing to marry lands, her own daughter,Marguerite deValois,to Jeannes son, Henry of Navarre, now chief of the Huguenot party.

  • Penetrated by the conviction that ignorance was the worst of the inveterate evils of old Russia, a pitiless enemy of superstition of every sort, a reformer by nature, overflowing with energy and resource, and with a singularly lucid mind armed at all points by a farreaching erudition, Prokopovich was the soul of the reforming party after the death of Peter the Great.

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