inveterate
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Is inveterate a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (of a person) Having had a habit (usually a bad habit) for a long time.Examples: "Near-synonyms: hardened, chronic, dyed-in-the-wool"; "an inveterate idler; an inveterate gambler; an inveterate smoker"; "an inveterate traveller"Antonyms: casual#Adjective, sometime#Adjective, occasional#Adjective, dilettante#Adjective
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To fix and settle after a long time; to entrench.Examples: ""the vulgar conceived that now there was an end given, and a consummation to superstitious prophecies, the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men, and to an ancient tacit expectation which had by tradition been infused and inveterated into men's minds.""; ""none of these Princes do use to maintaine any armies together, which are annex'd and inveterated with the governments of the provinces, as were the armies of the Roman Empire. ""; "The foregoing elements of disunion are inveterated by the constituent formation of our national legislature. In the French chambers the members are all Frenchmen ; but our members of Congress are effectively Georgians, New-Yorkers, Carolinians, Pennsylvanians, &c."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary