[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

habitual \habit"ual\ h.abi^t"-ual; 135, a. cf. f.
   habituel, ll. habitualis. see habit, n.
   1. formed or acquired by habit or use.
      1913 webster

            an habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims.
                                                  --south.
      1913 webster

   2. according to habit; established by habit; customary;
      constant; as, the habitual practice of sin.
      1913 webster

            it is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to
            be grateful for the most common and ordinary
            blessings.                            --buckminster.

   syn: customary; accustomed; usual; common; wonted; ordinary;
        regular; familiar. -- habit"ually, adv. --
        habit"ualness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
habit habit"ually habit"ualness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

habitual
     adj 1: made a norm or custom or habit; "his habitual practice was
            to eat an early supper"; "her habitual neatness"
     2: commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed
        thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his
        habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor" syn: accustomed,
         customary, wonteda
     3: having a habit of long standing; "a chronic smoker" syn: chronic,
         confirmed, inveteratea
see also:
accustomed customary wonteda chronic confirmed inveteratea 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

82 moby thesaurus words for "habitual":
   accepted, accustomed, addicted, arranged, automatic, average,
   beaten, businesslike, chronic, common, commonplace, confirmed,
   constant, continual, conventional, current, customary, established,
   everyday, familiar, fixed, formal, frequent, frequentative,
   habituated, hackneyed, hardened, harmonious, household, in hand,
   ingrained, instinctive, inveterate, involuntary, many, many times,
   methodical, natural, normal, normative, not rare,
   of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, ordered, orderly,
   ordinary, perpetual, persistent, popular, predominating,
   prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, recurrent, recurring, regular,
   regulation, repetitive, ritual, rooted, routine, set, settled,
   standard, steady, stereotyped, stock, symmetrical, systematic,
   thick-coming, traditional, trite, uniform, universal, usual,
   vernacular, well-ordered, well-regulated, well-trodden, well-worn,
   wonted

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