- habit
- nounADJECTIVE▪ annoying, antisocial (BrE), bad, dangerous, destructive, dirty, disconcerting (BrE), disgusting, filthy, horrible, irritating, nasty, poor, terrible, unfortunate▪
Life has a nasty habit of repeating itself.
▪poor eating habits
▪ charming (often ironic), endearing, good▪one of his more endearing habits
▪her charming habit of setting fire to cats
▪ curious, eccentric, odd, peculiar, strange, unusual, weird▪ unhealthy▪The children are developing unhealthy eating habits.
▪ healthful (AmE), healthy▪ lifelong, old▪ daily, normal, regular, usual▪ ingrained▪deeply ingrained habits of thought
▪ nervous▪It was a nervous habit she'd had for years.
▪ expensive▪ personal, sexual, social▪I found some of his personal habits rather disconcerting.
▪ lifestyle▪Healthy lifestyle habits begin when you're young.
▪ mental▪Mental habits are not easily changed.
▪ buying, shopping, spending▪an effort to change the buying habits of the British public
▪ dietary, drinking, eating, feeding, food▪ exercise, sleeping, work▪The pills affected your sleeping habits.
▪Ellington's work habits were a marvel to all.
▪ reading, viewing▪women's television viewing habits
▪ cocaine, crack, drug, gambling, heroin, smoking▪I'm trying to kick the smoking habit.
VERB + HABIT▪ be in, have▪She had been in the habit of drinking five or six cups of coffee a day.
▪She has some very annoying habits.
▪He had an irritating habit of singing tunelessly around the house.
▪ acquire, adopt, cultivate, develop, establish, fall into, form, get in, get into, make▪I had fallen into my old bad habit of leaving everything until the last minute.
▪Try to get into good habits and eat regular healthy meals.
▪Make a habit of noting down any telephone messages.
▪ become▪Don't let eating between meals become a habit.
▪ break (yourself of), get out of, give up, kick▪a difficult habit to break
▪You must break yourself of the habit.
▪I got out of the habit of getting up early.
▪ change▪ support▪He turned to crime to support his habit.
HABIT + VERB▪ change▪The nation's eating habits have changed significantly.
PREPOSITION▪ by habit▪Much of what we do in daily life is done by habit.
▪ from habit▪I just did it from habit.
▪ out of habit▪I sat in my old seat purely out of habit.
PHRASES▪ a creature of habit▪Horses are creatures of habit and like to have a daily routine.
▪ force of habit▪Mr Norris woke up early from force of habit.
▪ the habit of a lifetime▪It's hard to change the habit of a lifetime.
▪ a hard habit to break▪Caffeine can be a hard habit to break.
▪ old habits die hard
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habit — habit … Dictionnaire des rimes
habit — [ abi ] n. m. • XIIe; lat. habitus « manière d être », « costume » 1 ♦ Sing. Vieilli Pièce d habillement. ⇒ costume, vêtement. L étoffe d un habit. Habit de velours. 2 ♦ Plur. LES HABITS : l ensemble des pièces composant l habillement. ⇒ affaires … Encyclopédie Universelle
Habit — • Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will… … Catholic encyclopedia
habit — HABIT. s. m. Vestement, ce qui est fait exprés pour couvrir le corps humain, ce qui sert ordinairement à couvrir le corps humain. Habit d homme. habit de femme. habit decent, modeste. habit bien fait. habit mal fait. habit court. habit long.… … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
Habit — Hab it (h[a^]b [i^]t) n. [OE. habit, abit, F. habit, fr. L. habitus state, appearance, dress, fr. habere to have, be in a condition; prob. akin to E. have. See {Have}, and cf. {Able}, {Binnacle}, {Debt}, {Due}, {Exhibit}, {Malady.}] 1. The usual… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
habit — n 1 Habit, habitude, practice, usage, custom, use, wont are comparable when they mean a way of behaving, doing, or proceeding that has become fixed by constant repetition. These words may be used also as collective or abstract nouns denoting… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Habit — may refer to: * Habit (psychology), an acquired pattern of behavior that often occurs automatically * Habituation, non associative learning in which there is a progressive diminution of behavioral response probability with repetition of a… … Wikipedia
Habit — «Habit» Canción de Pearl Jam Álbum No Code Publicación 27 de agosto de 1996 Grabación … Wikipedia Español
habit — [hab′it] n. [ME < OFr < L habitus, condition, appearance, dress < pp. of habere, to have, hold < IE base * ghabh , to grasp, take > GIVE] 1. Obs. costume; dress 2. a particular costume showing rank, status, etc.; specif., a) a… … English World dictionary
habit — hȁbit (ȁbit) m DEFINICIJA dugačka muška haljina do gležnja sa širokim rukavima: 1. crkv. redovničko odijelo; halja 2. halja posebna oblika izrađena za određenu skupinu ljudi [sučev habit; rektorski habit; dekanski habit] ETIMOLOGIJA lat. habitus … Hrvatski jezični portal
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