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accustomed

[uh-kuhs-tuhmd]

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adjective

customary; usual; habitual: in their accustomed manner.

habituated; acclimated (usually followed by to): accustomed to staying up late; accustomed to the noise of the subway.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see accustom, -ed²

Related forms

ac·cus·tomed·ly, adverb

ac·cus·tomed·ness, noun

half-ac·cus·tomed, adjective

well-ac·cus·tomed, adjective

Synonyms
1. characteristic, normal, regular. 2. used (to).

Antonyms
1. unusual. 2. unused (to).

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Example Sentences

They are intensely patriotic but accustomed to globalization.

University trustees are generally drawn from a business background and are accustomed to corporate plans.

Chinese leaders are not accustomed to that position.

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They are intensely patriotic but accustomed to globalization.

University trustees are generally drawn from a business background and are accustomed to corporate plans.

Chinese leaders are not accustomed to that position.

We're accustomed to borrowing from animals and plants when it comes to clothing ourselves.

Molecular biologists have become accustomed to seeing the same cellular machinery reused by many different species.

Already accustomed to being fed by people, they moved out into the cities.

We're so accustomed to data that hardly anyone questions it.

It was also clear that some visitors were not accustomed to escalators of any speed.

We are of course accustomed to announcements of this sort by the elite universities.

Then came the oryx, a wild breed accustomed to caring for itself and living on relatively little.

Steller's jay quickly becomes accustomed to campsites and human providers.

Not even gay men are accustomed to seeing that, in say, a crowded shopping mall or something.

If you think about that, girls growing up on a farm would have been accustomed to physical labor.

The region was in an accustomed power blackout that night.

TO many foreigners, accustomed to national codes and centralized administration.

Professors say students come to college accustomed to writing in the unstructured, chatty style of.

The greens, accustomed to hitting out, were hit themselves.

Jufri and other guides scale cave walls freehand, partly because they're accustomed to the climbs.

The races must have been spectacular for people who were accustomed to thinking of horsepower in terms of actual horses.

Just another day for a team accustomed to risky missions.

Gardeners accustomed to the familiar buzz heard instead.

Egelman, director of the center, did not want to cut any of the services to which students had become accustomed.

Argentines are accustomed to their government cooking the books.

These intelligent animals can adapt to many habitats, and some can even become accustomed to living in human communities.

As a fashion designer, you're accustomed to setting trends.

But the companies were too accustomed to competing with one another to form a common strategy.

In states accustomed to its risks, drilling for natural gas is seen as an economic lifeline.

Bridges is accustomed to straddling different worlds.

The need for this has come as a shock to a country that has in recent years grown accustomed to good economic news.

Accustomed to two-legged species, the bison ignore people unless they're surprised or intentionally disturbed.

And he had probably grown accustomed to the artist's visual wit.

The carriers had become accustomed to treating their networks as precious resources, and handsets as worthless commodities.

Plant scientists are accustomed to seeing their research projects destroyed by pests and disease, but not by the police.

Many investors, accustomed to the calmer bond markets, have been wary of the racier world of commodities.

Gradually they become accustomed to being followed by humans and are no longer disturbed.

Scientists are accustomed to thinking of whale populations in terms of genetic diversity.

We are also accustomed to people getting unpleasant with us.

Banks in emerging countries have become accustomed to crisis.

Similarly, a sudden abundance of oxygen can kill simple life-forms that aren't accustomed to the highly reactive element.

After a you get accustomed and stop trying to walk through too-small gaps, the holster disappears.

Not only are jobs difficult to get, the academic culture can be stifling to one accustomed to broader venues.

So try to be accustomed to think straight even when you're a bit drunk.

These works are the earliest seeds of the religious beliefs that many have been taught and grown accustomed to.

Give up the computing experience you've grown accustomed to for over a decade.

Smith is accustomed to working with the day laborers.

Some fear that viewers are becoming accustomed to light advertising loads.

Give the worms an hour or so to burrow into the bedding and get accustomed to their new habitat.

Students aren't always accustomed to thinking of grades in numerical terms.

Decades of prosperity have accustomed consumers to a wide range of choice.

Native plants are hardier, because they are naturally accustomed to the climatic and animal nuances of your region.

Students need to start working on the wiki as soon as possible, so that they can get accustomed to it.

Accustomed to choice as consumers, voters increasingly pick policies rather than signing up to comprehensive world views.

But he was accustomed to stomach bugs, so he waited a day before coming into town for help.

However, students today seem to be much less accustomed to regulating their behavior in public places.

Private-sector bosses are accustomed to playing hardball with unions because they know they can go bankrupt if they don't.

After a while they became more accustomed to our presence.

They become accustomed to any fixed standard of living, rich or poor.

In bodies accustomed to climbing mountains, office jobs and changes in diet can cause a person's insulin to run wild.

Those accustomed to good roads may grumble more loudly about much smaller shortcomings.

Creative types who are accustomed to lavishing money on moderately appealing projects will have to do more with less.

His briefcase is scanned, and, accustomed to the high rate of false.

Americans have become accustomed to a lot of burrito for a buck, so our southern neighbor's.

They loosened up and my feet quickly grew accustomed to the additional support.

Americans have become accustomed to stricken airlines and steel companies giving up on their pension plans.

He has also grown accustomed to neighborhood kids stealing his sign and planting it on other people's lawns as a joke.

Domesticated dogs arose from wolves that somehow became accustomed to living among people.

Predators that become accustomed to the routine sounds of their prey take notice when someone whistles a different tune.

As a scientist, he was accustomed to having his ideas knocked around.

There was enough ambient light so your eyes grew accustomed to the dark.

We are a nation of people accustomed to instant replays, call challenges, and overturns.

When expectations don't match what you are accustomed to, it can definitely be jarring.

OK, that's the version we're all accustomed to hearing, but the entire piece is technically an amalgam of new and old.

They had their accustomed table and waiter, and the former was always as prepared as the latter was prompt.

The males, in particular, have become so accustomed to the researchers that they behave as if they weren't being observed.

We are accustomed to thinking of science operating in some kind of vacuum.

Accustomed as they are to random murders, the formality of the occasion and the importance of the players seem alarming.

Parsons was accustomed to seeing baby sitters claiming salaries.

The law students, accustomed to articulate speakers with clearly defined agendas, puzzled over his all-over-the-map approach.

Ruthless price-cutting at supermarkets means consumers have grown accustomed to eating too much.

The country's midsection, while accustomed to hot summers, is seeing higher than normal temperatures for days on end this year.

Even so, a firm that has hitherto kept a low profile will have to get accustomed to revealing a fair amount about its activities.

For this reason, it is probable that many more mammals may be accustomed to superfetation.

Two attacks in one week has struck fear into a region more accustomed to danger from bears.

Gulf employers have got accustomed to using cheap labour and they are ready to fight tooth and nail to keep.

It's usually that alligators have grown accustomed to being around people and maybe accustomed to being fed.

For readers accustomed to buying content via the web, not much will change.

He had been a sailor and a fanner, accustomed to long hours, poor pay and hard labor.

As for getting stuck: the only way that happens is if you become accustomed to a lifestyle beyond the means of a grad student.

Pakistani companies may find that they can no longer borrow with the degree of flexibility to which they have become accustomed.

For the coder drones, accustomed to being paid in warm feelings, such displays might make them take their coding skills elsewhere.

Literary doctors are as little accustomed to agree on a diagnosis as their medical brethren.

Social-service agencies are accustomed to these situations and, if they're any good, know how to deal with them.

Mix a teaspoon or two of breast milk or formula into the food to help your baby become accustomed to the new food.

Accustomed to catching insects on the wing, many of the bats refused to eat worms from pans.

Utley, county physician, that he had been accustomed to taking the drug each night.

Just as predators have their accustomed prey species, their favored targets, so do pathogens.

In a field accustomed to breathless proclamations of breakthroughs, the research.

While the officials of the prison were making their accustomed tour.

We're accustomed to having our acts together and being able to accomplish things by sheer force of will and commitment.

Yesterday opened bright and pleasant for the thousands who were anxious to celebrate the new year in the accustomed manner.

After he is accustomed to both, it will really only hurt after he has them tightened and sometimes if he has to wear rubber bands.

With rare exceptions, newspapers have accustomed their readers to expect digital editions to be free.

The fowls are not yet accustomed to the music of the band.

Male professors are less accustomed to attracting attention because of their looks, and less comfortable with.

And because the government continues to severely restrict political freedom, people are accustomed to avoiding such issues.

It's light-years better than what we've grown accustomed to in recent years.

He was incredibly efficient at using his accustomed tools.

Both politicians and voters become accustomed to gradual decline.

By now, hundreds of birds had built nests near my camp and were becoming accustomed to my presence.

Moreover, they have grown accustomed to having nuclear reactors nearby and do not find the idea particularly frightening.

As consumers became more accustomed to buying travel over the internet, suppliers had to join in too.

And they are people of the coast: they are accustomed to fearsome natural disasters-as they often remind their visitors.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English < Middle French acoustumer. See ac-, custom

Related forms

pre·ac·cus·tom, verb (used with object)

re·ac·cus·tom, verb (used with object)

un·ac·cus·tom, verb (used with object)

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World English Dictionary

accustomed (əˈkʌstəmd)

—*adj* (foll by to) (foll by to)
1.	usual; customary
2.	used or inured (to)
3.	in the habit (of): accustomed to walking after meals

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Word Origin & History

accustom

early 15c., from M.Fr. acostumer, from à "to" + costume (see costume).

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accustomed

late 15c., "made customary, habitual," pp. adj. formed from accustom (q.v.).

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