Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word ACCUSTOMED

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Definitions of ACCUSTOMED

1. Familiar with something through repeated experience; adapted to existing conditions. (of a person)
2. Familiar through use; usual; customary. (of a thing, condition, activity, etc.)
3. (archaic) Frequented by customers.
4. inflection of accustom

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Examples of Using ACCUSTOMED in a Sentence

• Visitors not accustomed to this should be extra cautious when driving on the island's highways and roads.
• Nick is a retired private detective who left his very successful career when he married Nora, a wealthy heiress accustomed to high society.
• The reporters were all amateurs when they came to work, but the rewrite men were professionals, accustomed to teaching in a hard school.
• There are attempts by the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley to sabotage the coming of the end times, having grown accustomed to their comfortable surroundings in England.
• Though it depends on context, it is estimated that any shot longer than about fifteen seconds will seem rather slow to many modern-day viewers, especially those who are accustomed to mainstream Western movies, where slow cuts are uncommon.
• The Nenana people became accustomed to contact with Europeans, due to trading journeys to the Village of Tanana, where Russians bartered Western goods for furs from 1838.
• After being transferred to Penn, Delaware's Swedish, Dutch, and English residents became accustomed to the relaxed culture of the Restoration monarchy and grew uncomfortable with the more conservative Quaker influence, so Delaware petitioned for a separate legislature, which was finally granted in 1702.
• These numbers alarmed some long-time residents who are accustomed to the rural tranquility of Crozet; more than a thousand people petitioned the county to reduce the number of planned households.
• Farmers of the western frontier were accustomed to distilling their surplus rye, barley, wheat, corn, or fermented grain mixtures to make whiskey.
• Their teenage children, Ben and Mary Anne, are accustomed to his stern discipline and behave accordingly while adapting to their new town and school.
• The Parmese ambassador convinced the all-powerful Princess des Ursins to give her crucial consent to the marriage by convincing her that Elisabeth was a simple-minded person, accustomed to nothing but needlework and embroidery and easy to control and dominate as a replacement for the previous, cooperative queen consort.
• Richard Lazarus asserts that people become accustomed to positive or negative life experiences which lead to favorable or unfavorable expectations of their present and near-future circumstances.
• As he put it: 'It was necessary to organize these troops in brigades, divisions, and corps d’armee with those better disciplined and more accustomed to war'.
• These painstaking methods caused conflict between the band and Spector since the Ramones were accustomed to a quicker recording process.
• Much of illogic rests on dubious assumptions, dubious data or dubious conclusions, with rhetoric, whitewashing, and deception playing their accustomed roles.
• A memo sent to the Prime Minister's office said that New Zealanders should "be friendly and sympathetic towards the coloured American troops–but remember that they are not accustomed in their own country to close and intimate relationships with white people".
• Colombian cartels, such as the Medellín Cartel, were using the Galician mafia, already accustomed to smuggling tobacco, to smuggle drugs into Spain.

• Even the youngest scholars are accustomed never to keep silence; they are always asserting vigorously whatever comes uppermost to their minds, lest they should seem to be giving up the dispute.

• The continuous presence of the country's pre-Islamic, non-Muslim communities, such as Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians, had accustomed the population to the participation of non-Muslims in society.
• A key military development with great implications later was that the Yellow Turbans fought mainly with troops deployed from the battle-tested Liang Province who had been accustomed to suppressing rebellions by the Qiang tribes.

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