Habitual vs Threadbare - What's the difference?
habitual | threadbare | Related terms |
Behaving in a regular manner, as a habit.
Recurring, or that is performed over and over again.
Regular or usual.
(of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show
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damaged or shabby
* Thomas Carlyle
(of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material
(of speech) banal or ; trite or hackneyed
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=August 21
, author=Jason Heller
, title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)
, work=The Onion AV Club
Habitual is a related term of threadbare.
As adjectives the difference between habitual and threadbare
is that habitual is behaving in a regular manner, as a habit while threadbare is (of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show.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
* habituallythreadbare
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Unkempt, in threadbare clothes, with holed shoes and sun-cured hide, my costume is permanent: the traveler, the man from far away.
- Holy Virgin stood in the main Convent of Glatz, in rather a threadbare condition, when the Prussians first approached; the Jesuits, and ardently Orthodox of both sexes, flagitating Heaven and her with their prayers, that she would vouchsafe to keep the Prussians out.
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