HABITUATED Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in accustomed

being in the habit or custom not only did the early-morning anchorman become habituated to getting up early, he found he actually liked it

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habituated

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verb

past tense of habituate

as in haunted

to go to or spend time in often the sort of lounge lizard known to habituate bars and nightclubs

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Recent Examples of habituated

Adjective

Visitors trek through the forest to observe habituated gorilla families, generating jobs and revenue for nearby communities. — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026 Only a dozen habituated gorilla families are open to visitors, and no more than eight people may visit each family per day. — Emily Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2026 The habituated behaviors and dimensions that determine how the other two layers are actually lived out. — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 Wild animals that learn to associate humans with food become habituated, losing their natural wariness. — Emily Hayes, Martha Stewart, 7 June 2026 This orangutan is well habituated and sometimes come to a nearby feeding station for food. — New Atlas, 29 Mar. 2026 As the residential community around Lake Tahoe has grown, bears have been pushed further uphill and become habituated to human food. — Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026 Over the years, individual dingoes deemed too habituated to humans have been euthanized, in consultation with the Butchulla people. — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 24 Jan. 2026 In October, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, with help from federal conservation officials, killed four wolves from the Beyem Seyo pack, which had become unusually habituated to preying on cattle from ranches in Sierra Valley. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 6 Jan. 2026

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First, we’ve been habituated to bite-sized texts like, well… texts, Reddit, email and Instagram captions. — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026 In some cases, DEEP said loud noises are not effective at scaring away bears, especially ones that have already been habituated. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026 With active conflicts in many parts of the world such as Russia-Ukraine, Pakistan-Afghanistan, and in the Middle East, or humanitarian disaster as in Somalia, the people and states in the world are becoming increasingly war-habituated. — Debidatta A. Mahapatra, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026 The process of learning to suppress a response to the rewarding stimulus happens at the level of the reward system—there is a decrease in the size of the dopamine release caused by a particular reward cue once the circuit has become habituated. — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026 But last year, one of the state’s 10 resurgent wolf packs became unusually habituated to hunting and eating livestock instead of wild prey. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 6 Feb. 2026 Even Americans who have grown habituated to Trump’s excesses have been shaken by these killings and the reflexively cruel and dishonest response from the administration. — Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026 In fact, they’d merely been habituated, the way a bird learns to ignore a rhino. — AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025 These sediments, the researchers observed, had low bacterial diversity compared to other surrounding sediments, and the bacteria came from families habituated to alkaline environments, such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents or alkaline hot springs. — Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 9 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for habituated

Adjective

And the city has removed many of the huge street-corner bins where Parisians are accustomed to dropping their empty wine and beer bottles.

— Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Gallery-goers are perhaps more accustomed to seeing paintings of private menageries or packs of hunting hounds—both status symbols for the nobility—but there was also a trend for portraits of large groups of little dogs.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of accustomed

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The Warrens visited the house in March 1976 with a group that included parapsychological researchers and media personnel and concluded it was haunted.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Oct. 2026
For a franchise seemingly haunted by injuries, this is becoming an exasperating annual ritual.

— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of haunted

Adjective

For laundry, Airbnb says guests should no longer be asked to remove sheets from a bed or put a load in a washing machine, but they can be asked to gather used towels.

— James Peckham, PC Magazine, 22 Oct. 2026
Hosts can still ask guests to complete simpler tasks, such as placing used dishes in the sink.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of used

Verb

Coleman’s daughter Lynn Coleman Hudson told the crowd at Thursday’s ceremony her father was inspired by the kids who frequented his business, Coleman’s Westside Sundries.

— Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2026
Maxim’s continues to be a destination for the stylish set today, with A-listers like Naomi Campbell, Sharon Stone and Bad Bunny all having frequented the hotspot in recent years.

— Tim Chan, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of frequented

Verb

Switzerland's foreign ministry told The Associated Press on Friday that the woman, married to a Swiss diplomat in Nigeria, had not visited Congo and was believed to have contracted Ebola while traveling to Uganda.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Mann said he’s visited about 70 of the state’s counties during his campaign, talking to law enforcement and prosecutors.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026

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