Word Meanings - INVETERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Old; long-established. It is an inveterate and received opinion. Bacon. 2. Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse. Heal the inveterate canker of one wound.

Additional info about word: INVETERATE

1. Old; long-established. It is an inveterate and received opinion. Bacon. 2. Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse. Heal the inveterate canker of one wound. Shak. 3. Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker. 4. Malignant; virulent; spiteful. H. Brooke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INVETERATE)

• Rooted
• Fixed
• established
• grounded
• based
• inveterate
• domiciled
• naturalized
• installed

Related words: (words related to INVETERATE)

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  One of the largest species of sharks , so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.
• BASIFY
  To convert into a salifiable base.
• BASILIC; BASILICAL
  Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm. (more info) 1. Royal; kingly; also, basilican.
• BASS VIOL
  A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.
• BASSWOOD
  The bass or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow.
• BASTARDLY
  Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. -- adv.
• BASKET BALL
  A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• BASAL
  Relating to, or forming, the base. Basal cleavage. See under Cleavage. -- Basal plane , one parallel to the lateral or horizontal axis.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• DOMICILIAR
  A member of a household; a domestic.
• BASINET
  See BASCINET
• BASED
  Wearing, or protected by, bases. "Based in lawny velvet." E. Hall. (more info) 1. Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based. 2. Etym:
• BASIFIER
  That which converts into a salifiable base.
• BASTE
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• BASICITY
  The quality or state of being a base. The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.
• ROOTCAP
  A mass of parenchym
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  The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.
• GROUNDNUT
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• BASIGYNIUM
  The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• POLYBASIC
  Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as, sulphuric acid is polybasic.
• POLYBASITE
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• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• PROOTIC; PROOETIC
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• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
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  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
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