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Definitions for accustomed
əˈkʌs təmdac·cus·tomed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. accustomedadjective

    (often followed by `to') in the habit of or adapted to

    "accustomed to doing her own work"; "I've grown accustomed to her face"

  2. accustomed, customary, habitual, wonted(a)adjective

    commonly used or practiced; usual

    "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor"

Wiktionary

  1. accustomedadjective

    Familiar through use; usual; customary.

  2. accustomedadjective

    Inured to; adapted to existing conditions.

  3. accustomedadjective

    Frequented by customers

  4. Etymology: accustom + -ed

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Accustomed

    According to custom; frequent; usual.

    Etymology: from accustom.

    Look how she rubs her hands. ———— It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands: I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

ChatGPT

  1. accustomed

    Accustomed refers to being familiar with or used to something due to regular exposure or experience. It often implies a level of normality or comfort with a situation, action, or environment that was achieved through continual or repeated experiences. It can also mean typically or usually.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Accustomed

    of Accustom

  2. Accustomedadjective

    familiar through use; usual; customary

  3. Accustomedadjective

    frequented by customers

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of accustomed in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of accustomed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of accustomed in a Sentence

  1. Johann Kaspar Lavater:

    I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

  2. Hazrat Inayat Khan:

    We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.

  3. Yoel Sano:

    Japan is keen to play a more active role in the world and it will be exposed to more dangers than it is accustomed to and it needs contingency plans for the future.

  4. Judea Pearl:

    It is the norm, you get accustomed to it, you get accustomed to read about it in the newspaper or see another video, it becomes part of our life.You forget that it wasn’t normal. But they managed to make it a normal part of brutality. Brutality is penetrating our bloodstream without us knowing.

  5. Hanna Yemielianenko:

    We are very tolerant and we are accustomed to living in peace, we will always manage to preserve this, regardless of the leadership's position.

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