They overcame many inveterate superstitions.
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Inveterate
//ɪnˈvɛtəɹɪt//
Synonyms for "inveterate" (175 found)
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Closest matches (35)
ingrainedusualabidingaccustomedacknowledgedaddictedadmittedage-longagedancientantiquechronicchronicallyconfirmedconstantcontinuingconventionalcustomarydeep dyeddeep rooted
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Adjective(9 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Adverb(1 words)
Strong matches (53)
Related words (87)
innateinstilledintransientinwroughtirreversiblelastinglegendarylifelonglong establishedlong lastinglong livedlong standinglong termlong-establishedlong-lastinglong-livedlong-standinglong-termlongevallongevous
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macrobioticmythologicalof long durationof long standingof the folkoldold lineold-lineon a rockon bedrockoralperdurableperduringperennialpermanentperpetualpersistentpersistingprescriptiveradicatedreceivedrecognizedremainingrootedsempervirentsetsettledsettled in habitstabilizedstablestayingsteadfaststeadyswornthoroughtime-honoredtoughtraditionaltried and truetrue bluetrue-blueunderstoodunfadingunrepentantunwrittenvenerablevestedvitalwell-establishedwell-foundedwell-groundedwell-setwell-settledworshipful
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53 translations across 18 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- رَاسِخ adj (firmly established)
- عَرِيق adj (whose habits are firmly established)
- مُتَأَصِّل adj (firmly established)
- مُتَوَاصِل adj (firmly established)
Bulgarian
3 entries- заклет adj (firmly established)
- закоравял adj (firmly established)
- закостенял adj (whose habits are firmly established)
Catalan
2 entries- inveterat adj (firmly established)
- inveterat adj (whose habits are firmly established)
Czech
4 entries- nenapravitelný adj (whose habits are firmly established)
- notorický adj (whose habits are firmly established)
- vžitý adj (firmly established)
- zakořeněný adj (firmly established)
Dutch
2 entries- chronisch adj (firmly established)
- verstokt adj (whose habits are firmly established)
French
2 entries- invétéré adj (firmly established)
- invétéré adj (whose habits are firmly established)
German
4 entries- chronisch adj (firmly established)
- eingefleischt adj (whose habits are firmly established)
- tief verwurzelt adj (firmly established)
- unverbesserlich adj (whose habits are firmly established)
Ido
1 entries- kustumala adj (firmly established)
Irish
3 entries- dobhogtha adj (whose habits are firmly established)
- doleigheasta adj (whose habits are firmly established)
- ársanta adj (firmly established)
Italian
4 entries- accanito adj (whose habits are firmly established)
- incallito adj (whose habits are firmly established)
- incorreggibile adj (whose habits are firmly established)
- inveterato adj (firmly established)
Japanese
4 entries- 常習の adj (whose habits are firmly established)
- 慢性の adj (firmly established)
- 根強い adj (firmly established)
- 根深い adj (firmly established)
Latin
1 entries- inveterātus adj (firmly established)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اسكی adj (firmly established)
Polish
2 entries- zakorzeniony adj (firmly established)
- zakorzeniony adj (whose habits are firmly established)
Portuguese
2 entries- inveterado adj (firmly established)
- inveterado adj (whose habits are firmly established)
Russian
3 entries- закорене́лый adj (firmly established)
- закорене́лый adj (whose habits are firmly established)
- заядлый adj (whose habits are firmly established)
Spanish
2 entries- empedernido adj (whose habits are firmly established)
- incorregible adj (whose habits are firmly established)
Swedish
4 entries- inbiten adj (whose habits are firmly established)
- ingrodd adj (firmly established)
- inrotad adj (firmly established)
- oförbätterlig adj (whose habits are firmly established)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
Mary is the kind of inveterate traveller who will probably never settle down in one place.
Source: tatoeba (4098691)
Ask your own conscience, Sir William, what has prompted you to become a renegade to your political party and opinions, and led you, for what I know, to be on the point of marrying your only daughter to a beggarly Jacobite bankrupt, the inveterate enemy of your family to the boot.
Source: tatoeba (7760662)
Australians are inveterate travelers.
Source: tatoeba (8794471)
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