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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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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
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 But the study authors claim that the process begins much earlier, when animals become habituated to human environments. — Marina Wang, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2025 Using long-term dietary data of habituated chimpanzees from each of the two field sites, the researchers found that chimpanzees consume about 14 grams of pure ethanol per day of foraging, Dudley said. — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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
  1. accustomed
  2. haunted
  3. used
  4. frequented
  5. visited
Adjective
  • Collectors have become accustomed to shuttling between events and openings spread across the capital.
    — Payal Uttam, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Amid cultural and social upheaval in America, Parton grew accustomed to coming under fire.
    — Shima Oliaee, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of accustomed
Verb
  • Just a 15-minute drive from Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, my South Florida childhood was haunted by a quiet, persistent grief.
    — Brittany Berlin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The feature bowed at the Halloween box office in October 2020 and was based on his own 2017 short about a parking lot attendant haunted by a monster who emerges from touchscreen gagets.
    — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of haunted
Adjective
  • In the center of town, check out Inquiring Minds Bookstore for used and new books with a great kids’ section or Enoki for an eclectic mix of Asian pantry items and vintage clothing.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Mihalich, who shares thrift shopping tips and finds with thousands of followers on Instagram, says buying used clothing is as much about saving money as sustainability.
    — Joshua Sidorowicz, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of used
Verb
  • Still, Billie convinces some of the gang to join her for a club night at Uncle Tuesday, a spot on Avenue A frequented by the youths.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Americans are being warned to avoid parts of an African safari destination where terrorists have targeted upscale lodges frequented by international big-game hunters.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of frequented
Verb
  • Van Noy visited the team’s TCO Performance Center on Tuesday.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The children also visited Althorp, the childhood home and final resting place of Harry's late mother, Princess Diana.
    — Ashley Hume , Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of visited

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“Habituated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habituated. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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