Inveterate
Inveterate İngilizce anlamı ve tanımı
Inveterate anlamları
- (v. t.) To fix and settle by long continuance.
- (a.) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
- (a.) Old; long-established.
- (a.) Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
- (a.) Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse.
Inveterate tanım:
Kelime: in·vet·er·ate
Söyleniş: in-'ve-t(&-)r&t
İşlev: adjective
Kökeni: Middle English, from Latin inveteratus, from past participle of inveterare to age (v.t.), from in- veter-, vetus old -- more at WETHER
1 : firmly established by long persistence the inveterate tendency to overlook the obvious
2 : confirmed in a habit : HABITUAL an inveterate liar
- in·vet·er·ate·ly adverb
synonyms INVETERATE, CONFIRMED, CHRONIC mean firmly established. INVETERATE applies to a habit, attitude or feeling of such long existence as to be practically ineradicable or unalterable an inveterate smoker . CONFIRMED implies a growing stronger and firmer with time so as to resist change or reform a confirmed bachelor . CHRONIC suggests something that is persistent or endlessly recurrent and troublesome a chronic complainer .