Tra từ habitual - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

ha‧bit‧u‧al/həˈbɪtʃuəl/ adjective
[Word Family: noun: habit, habitué; verb: habituate; adverb: habitually; adjective: habitual]
1. [ONLY BEFORE NOUN]
doing something from habit, and unable to stop doing it
habitual criminal/offender/felon etc
habitual drinker/gambler etc

2. done as a habit that you cannot stop:
　 ▪ His drinking had become habitual.

3. [ONLY BEFORE NOUN]
usual or typical of someone:
　 ▪ James took his habitual morning walk around the garden.

—habitually adverb:
　 ▪ men who are habitually violent

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a habitual/chronic/inveterate liarformal (= who lies a lot)
▪ Drug users are often habitual liars trying to cover up their addiction.
habitual criminals (=criminals who commit crimes repeatedly)
▪ The new law will ensure that habitual criminals receive tougher punishments than first-time offenders.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
drinker
▪ Johnstone has confronted his fall from grace with the kind of honest self-awareness that is rare in habitual drinkers.
▪ Many habitual drinkers of caffeine-containing beverages find that they must increase their dose to achieve the preferred degree of stimulation.
▪ Blood alcohol levels rise at pretty much the same rate in infrequent and habitual drinkers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ingrained attitudes and habitual ways of thinking are very difficult to change.
▪ It is estimated that as many as half the young men in the community are habitual drug users.
▪ Many of the prisoners are habitual liars.
▪ My father was a habitual gambler, until my mother packed her bags and threatened to leave.
▪ Tony's habitual laziness became even more extreme in winter, and he would sometimes stay in bed until mid afternoon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even close friends considered him a habitual liar.
▪ He watched her intently as she per-formed this habitual act-then climbed into her lap and let her hold him.
▪ It comes easy to the habitual vagrant; it is well-nigh impossible to the inexperienced.
▪ She had applied more make-up than usual but with her habitual restraint.
▪ Soon you will find that you are taking more time to act, instead of reacting with an habitual response.
▪ The habitual violence of the time was tamed somewhat when the Shoguns settled in Kyoto, from 1393 to 1576.
▪ What does seem more difficult to believe, however, is that the practice of carrying firearms was habitual among Hooligans.