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Roget's Thesaurus

Habit (includes commonness due to frequency of occurrence)

Nouns
  • habit, habitude
  • assuetude, assuefaction, wont
  • run, way. common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things
  • matter of course
  • beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground. prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice
  • prevalence, observance
  • conventionalism, conventionality
  • mode, fashion, vogue
  • etiquette etc. (gentility) Fashion
  • order of the day, cry
  • conformity etc. Conformity
  • consuetude, dustoor. one's old way, old school
  • standing order, precedent, routine
  • red-tape, red-tapism
  • pipe clay
  • rut
  • bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit etc.
  • addiction, trick. training etc. (education) Teaching
  • seasoning, second nature, acclimatization
  • knack etc.
Verbs
  • be wont etc. adj.. fall into a rut, fall into a custom etc. (conform to) Conformity
  • tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten
  • move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way. habituate, inure, harden, season, caseharden
  • accustom, familiarize
  • naturalize, acclimatize
  • keep one's hand in
  • train etc. (educate) Teaching. get into the way, get into the knack of
  • learn etc. Learning
  • cling to, adhere to
  • repeat etc. Repetition
  • acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick
  • addict oneself to, take to, get into. be habitual etc. adj.
  • prevail
  • come into use, become a habit, take root
  • gain upon one, grow upon one.
Adjectives
  • habitual
  • accustomary
  • prescriptive, accustomed etc. v.
  • of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence
  • consuetudinary
  • wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot
  • well-trodden, well-known
  • familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped
  • prevailing, prevalent
  • current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited
  • of course, admitted, understood. conformable. etc. Conformity
  • according to use, according to custom, according to routine
  • in vogue, in fashion, in, with it
  • fashionable etc. (genteel) Fashion. wont
  • used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated etc. v.
  • in the habit of
  • habitue
  • at home in etc. (skillful) Skill
  • seasoned
  • imbued with
  • devoted to, wedded to. hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted, permanent, inveterate, besetting
  • naturalized
  • ingrained etc. (intrinsic) Intrinsicality.
Adverbs
  • habitually etc. adj.
  • always etc. (uniformly) Uniformity. as usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards
  • more suo
  • ex more. as a rule, for the most part
  • usually, generally, typically etc. adj.
  • most often, most frequently.
Phrases
  • How use doth breed a habit in a man! " [Two Gentlemen]