habitual

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.

   “Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust.”

2. sıfat Regular or usual.

   “Professor Franklein took his habitual seat at the conference table.”

3. sıfat Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.

   “He’s a habitual chain-smoker.”

4. sıfat Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.

   “In English, for instance, the Habitual Aspect (used to construction) can combine freely with Progressive Aspect, to give such forms as used to be playing.”

5. isim One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender.

   “It has been suggested that we should classify prisoners as casuals and habituals. If a casual is to be distinguished from an habitual simply by the length of his sentence, this classification would hardly answer.”

6. isim A construction representing something done habitually.

   “Indeed, [Thomas] Givón (1994: 323) suggests the habitual is a 'hybrid modality', sharing some features of realis (higher assertive certainty) and some of irrealis ('lack of specific temporal reference; lack of specific evidence; …').”