Wonted vs Traditional - What's the difference?
wonted | traditional | Related terms |
Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.
* 1836 , (Charles Dickens), (Sketches by Boz): illustrative of every-day life and every-day people:
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
* 2008 , William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes:
* 2008 (tr.?), (Lodovico Ariosto), (Orlando Furioso):
Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.
Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.
As adjectives the difference between wonted and traditional
is that wonted is usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed while traditional is of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.wonted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Rose Villa has once again resumed its wonted appearance; the dining-room furniture has been replaced; the tables are as nicely polished as formerly; the horsehair chairs are ranged against the wall, as regularly as ever [...]
- Superficially, the affairs of 'Every Other Week' settled into their wonted form again, and for Fulkerson they seemed thoroughly reinstated.
- But not with wonted welcome;—inly moved [...]
traditional
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I think her traditional values are antiquated .
