Crossword-Solution: INVETERATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inveterate | a. | Old; long-established. |
| Inveterate | a. | Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse. |
| Inveterate | a. | Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker. |
| Inveterate | a. | Malignant; virulent; spiteful. |
| Inveterate | v. t. | To fix and settle by long continuance. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “INVETERATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Of long standing | 4 answers |
| Dyed-in-the-wool | 4 answers |
| Sworn | 6 answers |
| Deep-rooted | 6 answers |
| hard shell | 9 answers |
| inmost | 10 answers |
| Unremitting | 12 answers |
| perennial | 14 answers |
| lifelong | 15 answers |
| recurrent | 22 answers |
| ingrained | 26 answers |
| chronic | 30 answers |
| persisting | 42 answers |
| ABIDING | 51 answers |
| entrenched | 52 answers |
| Habitual | 53 answers |
| hardened | 54 answers |
| immersed | 55 answers |
| Hardening | 64 answers |
| continuing | 65 answers |
| Habituate | 66 answers |
| accustomed | 66 answers |
| Endless | 66 answers |
| Eternal | 69 answers |
| Harden | 71 answers |
| Settled | 80 answers |
| Old | 102 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INVETERATE (5)
Jupiter, indignant at such inveterate faultfinding, drove him from his office of judge, and expelled him from the mansions of Olympus.
King Phoebus bids us straitly extirpate A fell pollution that infests the land, And no more harbor an inveterate sore.
This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.
This pestilent wizard (in whom his just punishment seemed to have wrought no manner of amendment) had an inveterate habit of haunting a certain mansion, styled the House of the Seven Gables, against the owner of which he pretended to hold an unsettled claim for ground-rent.
The royal policy had long been to weaken, by every means, legal or illegal, the strength of a part of the population which was justly considered as nourishing the most inveterate antipathy to their victor.
Quotes with INVETERATE (3)
I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
(Ivan) Hold your tongue, or I'll kill you!(The devil) You'll kill me? No, excuse me, I will speak. I came to treat myself to that pleasure. Oh, I love the dreams of my ardent young friends, quivering with eagerness for life! 'There are new men,' you decided last spring, when you were meaning to come here, 'they propose to destroy everything and begin with cannibalism. Stupid fellows! they didn't ask my advice! I maintain that nothing need be destroyed, that we only need to de…
A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1977–2018).