Habitual vs Fixed - What's the difference?
habitual | fixed |
Behaving in a regular manner, as a habit.
Recurring, or that is performed over and over again.
Regular or usual.
(fix)
Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
Stationary.
Attached; affixed
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Chemically stable.
Supplied with what one needs.
(legal) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
(dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
As adjectives the difference between habitual and fixed
is that habitual is behaving in a regular manner, as a habit while fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.As a verb fixed is
past tense of fix.habitual
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Alternative forms
* habituall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He's a habitual chainsmoker .
- Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust .
- Professor Franklein took his habitual seat at the conference table .
Derived terms
* habituallyfixed
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- fixed assets
- I work fixed''' hours for a '''fixed salary.
- Every religion has its own fixed ideas.
- ''He looked at me with a fixed glare.
- The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a ) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally
- She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
- In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.
- a fixed''' tomcat''; the ''she-cat'' has been '''fixed