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What (who) is inveterate - definition
inveterate
[?n'v?t(?)r?t]
¦ adjective having a long-standing and firmly established habit or activity: he was an inveterate gambler.
?(of a feeling or habit) firmly established.
Derivatives
inveteracy noun
inveterately adverb
Origin
ME (referring to disease, in the sense 'chronic'): from L. inveteratus 'made old', past participle of inveterare.
inveterate
a.
1.
Obstinate, besetting, chronic, deep-seated, long established.
2.
Habituated, habitual, accustomed, confirmed, hardened.
Inveterate
·adj Old; long-established.
II. Inveterate ·adj Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
III. Inveterate ·vt To fix and settle by long continuance.
IV. Inveterate ·adj Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
V. Inveterate ·adj Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse.
Examples of use of inveterate
1. By Marjorie Kehe I‘m an inveterate underliner when I read.
2. They are simply curious, inveterate party crashers and, well, big.
3. Formerly a Labour councillor in Newcastle upon Tyne, he describes himself as an inveterate Blairite.
4. It is an inveterate habit of the GNP group to depend on outsiders.
5. He‘s had a taste of their anger and of being called an inveterate liar.