Inveterate vs Null - What's the difference?
inveterate | null |
Old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit.
* 1843 , , book 1, ch. 3, "Manchester Insurrection":
* 1911 , Morrison I. Swift, "Humanizing the Prisons," The Atlantic :
(of a person) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
* 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 45:
Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
* 1748 , , Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals , London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 15:
(obsolete) To fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.
* 1622 , , The History of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh :
* 1640 , Edward Dacres, translation of The Prince by , Chapter XIX [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15772]:
* 1851 January, author unknown, "The Philosophy of the American Union, in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review , page 16:
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective inveterate
is old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit.As a verb inveterate
is (obsolete) to fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.inveterate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a Heaven's radiance of justice, prophetic, clearly of Heaven, discernible behind all these confused worldwide entanglements, of Landlord interests, Manufacturing interests, Tory-Whig interests, and who knows what other interests, expediencies, vested interests, established possessions, inveterate Dilettantisms, Midas-eared Mammonism.
- In Montpelier, where this prison stands, the inveterate prejudice against prisoners has been swept away.
- [S]he offered kisses to a stranger so confidingly that the most inveterate bachelor relented.
- A man of mild manners can form no idea of inveterate revenge or cruelty
Synonyms
* deep-rooted * ingrained * ineradicable * radicatedAntonyms
* casualVerb
(inveterat)- "the vulgar conceived that now there was an end given, and a consummation to superstitious prophecies, the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men, and to an ancient tacit expectation which had by tradition been infused and inveterated into men's minds."
- "none of these Princes do use to maintaine any armies together, which are annex'd and inveterated with the governments of the provinces, as were the armies of the Roman Empire. "
- "The foregoing elements of disunion are inveterated by the constituent formation of our national legislature. In the French chambers the members are all Frenchmen ; but our members of Congress are effectively Georgians, New-Yorkers, Carolinians, Pennsylvanians, &c."
Derived terms
* inveterationReferences
* * ----null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.