accustomed; used (usually followed by an infinitive): He was wont to rise at dawn.
noun
custom; habit; practice: It was her wont to walk three miles before breakfast.
verb (used with object),wont,wont or wont·ed,wont·ing.
to accustom (a person), as to a thing: That summer wonted me to a lifetime of early rising.
to render (a thing) customary or usual (usually used passively).
verb (used without object),wont,wont or wont·ed,wont·ing.
to be wont.
Origin of wont
1300–50; (adj.) Middle English wont, woned,Old English gewunod, past participle of gewunian to be used to (see won2); cognate with German gewöhnt; (v.) Middle English, back formation from wonted or wont (past participle); (noun) apparently from conflation of wont (past participle) with obsolete wone wish, in certain stereotyped phrases
SYNONYMS FOR wont
1 habituated, wonted.
2 use.
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ANTONYMS FOR wont
1 unaccustomed.
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OTHER WORDS FROM wont
wontless,adjective
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH wont
1. want, wont2. won't, wont
Words nearby wont
wonk, wonkish, wonky, wonna, Wŏnsan, wont, wonted, won't hear of, won ton, won't wash, woo
Allen responded with his own op-ed in the Times, and the media, as is their wont, proceeded to pick sides.
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As celebrities on the movie promotion circuit are wont to do, Cameron Diaz is hawking her latest cause celebre.
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It seemed to Polly that the days fairly crept by, instead of galloping past as they had been wont to do in the last three years.
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Thus James, more petulantly than was his wont, from his chair below the green-shaded lamp.
The Whirligig of Time|Wayland Wells Williams
I wont describe to you the progress of our love, or the wrath of my Uncle Edward when he discovered that it still continued.
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By this standard legislative bodies have been wont to judge the exigency of this mighty question.
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Maybe they all send and wont receive or all receive and wont send.
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British Dictionary definitions for wont (1 of 2)
wont
/ (wəʊnt) /
adjective
(postpositive)accustomed (to doing something)he was wont to come early
noun
a manner or action habitually employed by or associated with someone (often in the phrases as is my wont, as is his wont, etc)
verb
(when tr, usually passive)to become or cause to become accustomed
Word Origin for wont
Old English gewunod, past participle of wunian to be accustomed to; related to Old High German wunēn (German wohnen), Old Norse una to be satisfied; see wean1, wish, winsome