Dictionary Entry
inveterate
inveterate is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Old; long-established. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Old; long-established.
- 2adjective
Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse.
- 3adjective
Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
- 4adjective
Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
- 5transitive verb
To fix and settle by long continuance.
- 6adjective
habitual
"a chronic smoker"
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- 7adverb
in a habitual and longstanding manner
"smoking chronically"
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