Word Meanings - WONTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Accustomed; customary; usual. Again his wonted weapon proved. Spenser. Like an old piece of furniture left alone in its wonted corner. Sir W. Scott. She was wonted to the place, and would not remove. L'Estrange.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WONTED)
- Habitual
- Regular
- ordinary
- perpetual
- customary
- usual
- familiar
- accustomed
- wonted
- Usual
- Common
- normal
- regular
- habitual
- general
Related words: (words related to WONTED)
- FAMILIARLY
In a familiar manner. - ACCUSTOMARILY
Customarily. - REGULARITY
The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion. - ACCUSTOMEDNESS
Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce. - COMMONER
1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground. - GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - WONTED
Accustomed; customary; usual. Again his wonted weapon proved. Spenser. Like an old piece of furniture left alone in its wonted corner. Sir W. Scott. She was wonted to the place, and would not remove. L'Estrange. - REGULARIA
A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins. - COMMONISH
Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar. - GENERALTY
Generality. Sir M. Hale. - COMMONLY
1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser. - ORDINARY
1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. 3. Of common rank, quality, - COMMONWEALTH
Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state; - CUSTOMARY
Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate. (more info) 1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. Even now I met him With customary compliment. - NORMAL
According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal. (more info) square; prob. akin to noscere to know; cf. Gr. normal. See Known, and 1. According to an established norm, rule, - COMMONITION
Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey. - ACCUSTOMABLE
Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer. - GENERALITY
1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from - GENERALISSIMO
The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries. - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - UNWONTED
1. Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers. Milton. 2. Uncommon; unusual; infrequent; rare; as, unwonted changes. "Unwonted lights." Byron. -- Un*wont"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*wont"ed*ness, n. - UNCOMMON
Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n. - IRREGULARITY
The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular. - FELLOW-COMMONER
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. - INTERCOMMON
To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon. - SUBORDINARY
One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary. Note: Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar, bend, sinister, pile, inescutcheon bordure, gyron, and quarter, are always - DISACCUSTOM
To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.