ACCUSTOMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accustomed mean? 

• ACCUSTOMED (adjective)
  The adjective ACCUSTOMED has 1 sense:

1. commonly used or practiced; usual

  Familiarity information: ACCUSTOMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCUSTOMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Commonly used or practiced; usual

Synonyms:

accustomed; customary; habitual; wonted

Context example:

with her wonted candor

Similar:

usual (occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure)

 Context examples 

He started for the companion-way, and stepped forward quite as I had been accustomed to see him do; and yet again, in his very walk, there seemed that suggestion of weakness and indecision.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"I'm more accustomed to zero weather."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

So accustomed was I to his invariable success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to enter into my head.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We doctors, who have had to study our dangers, have to become accustomed to such things, and I drew back towards the door.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Against such a sight, and against such determination as that of the calmly desperate man who was already accustomed to lead half the people present, I might as hopefully have entreated the wind.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Accustomed as I was to Holmes’s curious faculties, this sudden intrusion into my most intimate thoughts was utterly inexplicable.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance I had been hitherto accustomed to call mine.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The lines of her face were hard and rude, like that of persons accustomed to see without sympathising in sights of misery.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Her face was large and square and red, with fierce, thick brows, and the eyes of one who was accustomed to rule.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Will you permit me to lay the table? Sir Charles is accustomed to partake of certain dishes and to drink certain wines, so that we usually bring them with us when we visit.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)