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Definition of inveterate in English: inveterateadjective ɪnˈvɛt(ə)rətɪnˈvɛdərət 1attributive Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change. Example sentencesExamples - She became an inveterate party-goer and embraced the ‘New Look’ promoted by Christian Dior, with the figure to wear the accompanying tight-waisted skirts and high heels.
- Bill is an inveterate gambler and has forged Fred's signature for $10,000, which he lost in a crap game.
- Being an inveterate gambler, the fourth son was only too glad to accept the offer.
- I crave intellectual respectability despite the fact that I am an inveterate gossip with a hankering for the naughty.
- In typically home-spun style, it tells the story of Bob, an inveterate procrastinator who is great at accomplishing meaningless tasks but not so hot at getting round to what really matters.
- An inveterate grassroots activist and organiser, she led the campaign to expose sterilisation abuse in Puerto Rico, where it was rampant.
- Jarecki succeeds brilliantly, because he had access to tapes and videos made by the Friedmans themselves, a family of manic talkers and inveterate home movie-makers.
- They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world.
- We have been in the present house for 35 years, and as an inveterate and incurable hoarder I have been faced with the need to sort things out, and decide quickly what must be kept, and what can sensibly be thrown out at last.
- Rice, who is an inveterate networker, maintains there is no hidden motives about such a high-powered gathering other than celebrating women in business and public life in Scotland.
- But I don't feel good either at the sight of inveterate smokers hanging around in back alleys looking like lost souls drifting amid poignant plumes of smoke.
- Richard M. Nixon was an inveterate Cold Warrior whose interest in domestic affairs never matched his passion for foreign affairs.
- The Clermont club was founded in 1962 by inveterate gambler Aspinall, in London's Berkeley Square.
- In the meantime, you may savor the irony of how this inveterate critic of liberal media bias exposed his own bias in such an extraordinary manner.
- Nice touch for this inveterate jazz fan is the fact that Nick owns a jazz club and who should be performing there but the excellent house band.
- He was an inveterate essayist and letter writer, renowned for the forceful expression of his opinions (on everything from compost to marching girls) and the ebullience of his wit.
- He was a congenital reformer, an inveterate crusader.
- There's plenty here to trap the unwary and baffle even the inveterate gambler!
- An inveterate adventurer more interested in fun and international intrigue than money, Vallone disdained an airline career and signed on as a ferry pilot.
- Karnataka Chief Minister Dharam Singh is an inveterate television watcher, whose interests range from news to the latest family serials.
Synonyms ingrained, deep-seated, deep-rooted, deep-set, entrenched, established, long-established, congenital ineradicable, incurable, irredeemable - 1.1 (of a feeling or habit) long-established and unlikely to change.
his inveterate hostility to what he considered to be the ‘reactionary’ powers Example sentencesExamples - What is certain about Andersen is that he was an inveterate social climber, and managed to latch on to some useful patrons.
- He makes movies about problem people, often inveterate liars, who are found out, but who are so compellingly alive and above the world that people let them pass.
- Its inveterate good manners are ultimately its undoing.
- The problem is that Fausto, though essentially kind, is an inveterate skirt chaser, and none too discrete at that.
- I have a democratic suspicion of demands for sanctity as a solution to corruption and other inveterate human failings.
- What distortions one finds in these fictionalized self-portraits and in Madame de Stael's memoirs arise most often from her inveterate idealism and enthusiasm rather than calculation.
- In town for the competition is Phil's arch rival and inveterate cheat Ray and his lovely American daughter Christina.
- One of the pleasures of the TV show, The Simpsons is Homer's inveterate stupidity.
- Ever the inveterate people watcher, I used to sit in the stands and study the folk down in the boxes.
- I will explore some of the more prominent Buddhist techniques for overcoming our inveterate dualism and the disconnected, alienated, disembodied condition it leads to.
- He's been a good friend and his inveterate optimism has been a welcome tonic to my usual cynicism.
- For this reason, as soon as he took office, Ma began to cultivate the attitude of indifference to Lee as a preparation for his inveterate opposition to the central government.
- His was a personable, companionable, bland brand of humour based on the long-running gag that Hope was an inveterate coward.
- He doesn't deal in heroes and villains, not even loveable rogues, and that's frightening stuff for an inveterate good guy.
- Every administration, that is, until this one, which from its first days has made clear its inveterate hostility to arms control.
- And nobody except the most inveterate optimists expected anything dramatic.
- Agnes was an inveterate correspondent and a great supporter of people in distress and need.
- According to the media, people nationwide have developed an offbeat mentality characterized by inveterate hostility to the rich.
- The three have a lot in common with each other in their inveterate hatred of that ethnic group.
- An inveterate multi-tasker, she's been a model, soundtrack composer, charity activist and personal performer to the British royal family.
Synonyms confirmed, hardened, chronic, hard-core, incorrigible habitual, addicted, compulsive, obsessive, obsessional informal pathological, hooked staunch, steadfast, committed, devoted, dedicated deep-dyed, dyed-in-the-wool, thorough, thoroughgoing, out and out, diehard, long-standing
Origin Late Middle English (referring to disease, in the sense 'of long standing, chronic'): from Latin inveteratus 'made old', past participle of inveterare (based on vetus, veter- 'old'). veteran from early 16th century: Veteran comes via French from Latin vetus ‘old’, also the source of inveterate (Late Middle English) ‘long-standing’. Vet, the abbreviation, is recorded from the mid 19th century. The other kind of vet, also mid 19th-century, is a shortening of veterinary [18th] from Latin veterinarius, from veterinae ‘cattle’.
Definition of inveterate in US English: inveterateadjectiveinˈvedərətɪnˈvɛdərət 1attributive Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change. he was an inveterate gambler Example sentencesExamples - I crave intellectual respectability despite the fact that I am an inveterate gossip with a hankering for the naughty.
- There's plenty here to trap the unwary and baffle even the inveterate gambler!
- Jarecki succeeds brilliantly, because he had access to tapes and videos made by the Friedmans themselves, a family of manic talkers and inveterate home movie-makers.
- In the meantime, you may savor the irony of how this inveterate critic of liberal media bias exposed his own bias in such an extraordinary manner.
- Rice, who is an inveterate networker, maintains there is no hidden motives about such a high-powered gathering other than celebrating women in business and public life in Scotland.
- Being an inveterate gambler, the fourth son was only too glad to accept the offer.
- But I don't feel good either at the sight of inveterate smokers hanging around in back alleys looking like lost souls drifting amid poignant plumes of smoke.
- We have been in the present house for 35 years, and as an inveterate and incurable hoarder I have been faced with the need to sort things out, and decide quickly what must be kept, and what can sensibly be thrown out at last.
- An inveterate grassroots activist and organiser, she led the campaign to expose sterilisation abuse in Puerto Rico, where it was rampant.
- Bill is an inveterate gambler and has forged Fred's signature for $10,000, which he lost in a crap game.
- They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world.
- The Clermont club was founded in 1962 by inveterate gambler Aspinall, in London's Berkeley Square.
- He was a congenital reformer, an inveterate crusader.
- In typically home-spun style, it tells the story of Bob, an inveterate procrastinator who is great at accomplishing meaningless tasks but not so hot at getting round to what really matters.
- Nice touch for this inveterate jazz fan is the fact that Nick owns a jazz club and who should be performing there but the excellent house band.
- An inveterate adventurer more interested in fun and international intrigue than money, Vallone disdained an airline career and signed on as a ferry pilot.
- She became an inveterate party-goer and embraced the ‘New Look’ promoted by Christian Dior, with the figure to wear the accompanying tight-waisted skirts and high heels.
- Karnataka Chief Minister Dharam Singh is an inveterate television watcher, whose interests range from news to the latest family serials.
- He was an inveterate essayist and letter writer, renowned for the forceful expression of his opinions (on everything from compost to marching girls) and the ebullience of his wit.
- Richard M. Nixon was an inveterate Cold Warrior whose interest in domestic affairs never matched his passion for foreign affairs.
Synonyms ingrained, deep-seated, deep-rooted, deep-set, entrenched, established, long-established, congenital - 1.1 (of a feeling or habit) long-established and unlikely to change.
Example sentencesExamples - I will explore some of the more prominent Buddhist techniques for overcoming our inveterate dualism and the disconnected, alienated, disembodied condition it leads to.
- For this reason, as soon as he took office, Ma began to cultivate the attitude of indifference to Lee as a preparation for his inveterate opposition to the central government.
- Its inveterate good manners are ultimately its undoing.
- His was a personable, companionable, bland brand of humour based on the long-running gag that Hope was an inveterate coward.
- The problem is that Fausto, though essentially kind, is an inveterate skirt chaser, and none too discrete at that.
- What distortions one finds in these fictionalized self-portraits and in Madame de Stael's memoirs arise most often from her inveterate idealism and enthusiasm rather than calculation.
- He makes movies about problem people, often inveterate liars, who are found out, but who are so compellingly alive and above the world that people let them pass.
- Ever the inveterate people watcher, I used to sit in the stands and study the folk down in the boxes.
- Agnes was an inveterate correspondent and a great supporter of people in distress and need.
- The three have a lot in common with each other in their inveterate hatred of that ethnic group.
- An inveterate multi-tasker, she's been a model, soundtrack composer, charity activist and personal performer to the British royal family.
- What is certain about Andersen is that he was an inveterate social climber, and managed to latch on to some useful patrons.
- According to the media, people nationwide have developed an offbeat mentality characterized by inveterate hostility to the rich.
- He's been a good friend and his inveterate optimism has been a welcome tonic to my usual cynicism.
- He doesn't deal in heroes and villains, not even loveable rogues, and that's frightening stuff for an inveterate good guy.
- In town for the competition is Phil's arch rival and inveterate cheat Ray and his lovely American daughter Christina.
- I have a democratic suspicion of demands for sanctity as a solution to corruption and other inveterate human failings.
- Every administration, that is, until this one, which from its first days has made clear its inveterate hostility to arms control.
- One of the pleasures of the TV show, The Simpsons is Homer's inveterate stupidity.
- And nobody except the most inveterate optimists expected anything dramatic.
Synonyms confirmed, hardened, chronic, hard-core, incorrigible staunch, steadfast, committed, devoted, dedicated
Origin Late Middle English (referring to disease, in the sense ‘of long standing, chronic’): from Latin inveteratus ‘made old’, past participle of inveterare (based on vetus, veter- ‘old’). |