Definition of inveterate in English:

inveterate

adjective ɪnˈvɛt(ə)rətɪnˈvɛdərət

1attributive Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change.
根深蒂固的，顽固不化的
an inveterate gambler
他是个积习难改的赌徒。
Example sentencesExamples
- She became an inveterate party-goer and embraced the ‘New Look’ promoted by Christian Dior, with the figure to wear the accompanying tight-waisted skirts and high heels.
- Bill is an inveterate gambler and has forged Fred's signature for $10,000, which he lost in a crap game.
- Being an inveterate gambler, the fourth son was only too glad to accept the offer.
- I crave intellectual respectability despite the fact that I am an inveterate gossip with a hankering for the naughty.
- In typically home-spun style, it tells the story of Bob, an inveterate procrastinator who is great at accomplishing meaningless tasks but not so hot at getting round to what really matters.
- An inveterate grassroots activist and organiser, she led the campaign to expose sterilisation abuse in Puerto Rico, where it was rampant.
- Jarecki succeeds brilliantly, because he had access to tapes and videos made by the Friedmans themselves, a family of manic talkers and inveterate home movie-makers.
- They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world.
- We have been in the present house for 35 years, and as an inveterate and incurable hoarder I have been faced with the need to sort things out, and decide quickly what must be kept, and what can sensibly be thrown out at last.
- Rice, who is an inveterate networker, maintains there is no hidden motives about such a high-powered gathering other than celebrating women in business and public life in Scotland.
- But I don't feel good either at the sight of inveterate smokers hanging around in back alleys looking like lost souls drifting amid poignant plumes of smoke.
- Richard M. Nixon was an inveterate Cold Warrior whose interest in domestic affairs never matched his passion for foreign affairs.
- The Clermont club was founded in 1962 by inveterate gambler Aspinall, in London's Berkeley Square.
- In the meantime, you may savor the irony of how this inveterate critic of liberal media bias exposed his own bias in such an extraordinary manner.
- Nice touch for this inveterate jazz fan is the fact that Nick owns a jazz club and who should be performing there but the excellent house band.
- He was an inveterate essayist and letter writer, renowned for the forceful expression of his opinions (on everything from compost to marching girls) and the ebullience of his wit.
- He was a congenital reformer, an inveterate crusader.
- There's plenty here to trap the unwary and baffle even the inveterate gambler!
- An inveterate adventurer more interested in fun and international intrigue than money, Vallone disdained an airline career and signed on as a ferry pilot.
- Karnataka Chief Minister Dharam Singh is an inveterate television watcher, whose interests range from news to the latest family serials.
Synonyms
ingrained, deep-seated, deep-rooted, deep-set, entrenched, established, long-established, congenital
ineradicable, incurable, irredeemable
1. 1.1 (of a feeling or habit) long-established and unlikely to change.
  （指情感或习惯）根深蒂固的，成癖的
  his inveterate hostility to what he considered to be the ‘reactionary’ powers
  Example sentencesExamples
  What is certain about Andersen is that he was an inveterate social climber, and managed to latch on to some useful patrons.
  He makes movies about problem people, often inveterate liars, who are found out, but who are so compellingly alive and above the world that people let them pass.
  Its inveterate good manners are ultimately its undoing.
  The problem is that Fausto, though essentially kind, is an inveterate skirt chaser, and none too discrete at that.
  I have a democratic suspicion of demands for sanctity as a solution to corruption and other inveterate human failings.
  What distortions one finds in these fictionalized self-portraits and in Madame de Stael's memoirs arise most often from her inveterate idealism and enthusiasm rather than calculation.
  In town for the competition is Phil's arch rival and inveterate cheat Ray and his lovely American daughter Christina.
  One of the pleasures of the TV show, The Simpsons is Homer's inveterate stupidity.
  Ever the inveterate people watcher, I used to sit in the stands and study the folk down in the boxes.
  I will explore some of the more prominent Buddhist techniques for overcoming our inveterate dualism and the disconnected, alienated, disembodied condition it leads to.
  He's been a good friend and his inveterate optimism has been a welcome tonic to my usual cynicism.
  For this reason, as soon as he took office, Ma began to cultivate the attitude of indifference to Lee as a preparation for his inveterate opposition to the central government.
  His was a personable, companionable, bland brand of humour based on the long-running gag that Hope was an inveterate coward.
  He doesn't deal in heroes and villains, not even loveable rogues, and that's frightening stuff for an inveterate good guy.
  Every administration, that is, until this one, which from its first days has made clear its inveterate hostility to arms control.
  And nobody except the most inveterate optimists expected anything dramatic.
  Agnes was an inveterate correspondent and a great supporter of people in distress and need.
  According to the media, people nationwide have developed an offbeat mentality characterized by inveterate hostility to the rich.
  The three have a lot in common with each other in their inveterate hatred of that ethnic group.
  An inveterate multi-tasker, she's been a model, soundtrack composer, charity activist and personal performer to the British royal family.
  Synonyms
  confirmed, hardened, chronic, hard-core, incorrigible
  habitual, addicted, compulsive, obsessive, obsessional
  informal pathological, hooked
  staunch, steadfast, committed, devoted, dedicated
  deep-dyed, dyed-in-the-wool, thorough, thoroughgoing, out and out, diehard, long-standing

Derivatives

inveteracy

noun ɪnˈvɛt(ə)rəsiɪnˈvɛd(ə)rəsi

He has brought back the doctrines of Calvinism in all their inveteracy, and relaxed the inveteracy of his northern accents.
Example sentencesExamples
- The inveteracy of her pursuit is unfathomable for she is completely deprived of pity and compassion.

inveterately

adverb

But the king is inveterately prey to the hungers of the senses, ad pleads pitifully with son after son to take on his senility and gift him youth for some time more.
Example sentencesExamples
- Academics inveterately complain of how little we know, and this book offers some redress.
- The main action is elaborately Italianate, the commentary inveterately English.
- For Homer in the early 1870s that ending set the course of his life as an inveterately single man.
- People at the low end of the scale operate in an inveterately passive state during media exposure.

Origin

Late Middle English (referring to disease, in the sense 'of long standing, chronic'): from Latin inveteratus 'made old', past participle of inveterare (based on vetus, veter- 'old').

veteran from early 16th century:
Veteran comes via French from Latin vetus ‘old’, also the source of inveterate (Late Middle English) ‘long-standing’. Vet, the abbreviation, is recorded from the mid 19th century. The other kind of vet, also mid 19th-century, is a shortening of veterinary [18th] from Latin veterinarius, from veterinae ‘cattle’.

Definition of inveterate in US English:

inveterate

adjectiveinˈvedərətɪnˈvɛdərət

1attributive Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change.
根深蒂固的，顽固不化的
he was an inveterate gambler
他是个积习难改的赌徒。
Example sentencesExamples
- I crave intellectual respectability despite the fact that I am an inveterate gossip with a hankering for the naughty.
- There's plenty here to trap the unwary and baffle even the inveterate gambler!
- Jarecki succeeds brilliantly, because he had access to tapes and videos made by the Friedmans themselves, a family of manic talkers and inveterate home movie-makers.
- In the meantime, you may savor the irony of how this inveterate critic of liberal media bias exposed his own bias in such an extraordinary manner.
- Rice, who is an inveterate networker, maintains there is no hidden motives about such a high-powered gathering other than celebrating women in business and public life in Scotland.
- Being an inveterate gambler, the fourth son was only too glad to accept the offer.
- But I don't feel good either at the sight of inveterate smokers hanging around in back alleys looking like lost souls drifting amid poignant plumes of smoke.
- We have been in the present house for 35 years, and as an inveterate and incurable hoarder I have been faced with the need to sort things out, and decide quickly what must be kept, and what can sensibly be thrown out at last.
- An inveterate grassroots activist and organiser, she led the campaign to expose sterilisation abuse in Puerto Rico, where it was rampant.
- Bill is an inveterate gambler and has forged Fred's signature for $10,000, which he lost in a crap game.
- They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world.
- The Clermont club was founded in 1962 by inveterate gambler Aspinall, in London's Berkeley Square.
- He was a congenital reformer, an inveterate crusader.
- In typically home-spun style, it tells the story of Bob, an inveterate procrastinator who is great at accomplishing meaningless tasks but not so hot at getting round to what really matters.
- Nice touch for this inveterate jazz fan is the fact that Nick owns a jazz club and who should be performing there but the excellent house band.
- An inveterate adventurer more interested in fun and international intrigue than money, Vallone disdained an airline career and signed on as a ferry pilot.
- She became an inveterate party-goer and embraced the ‘New Look’ promoted by Christian Dior, with the figure to wear the accompanying tight-waisted skirts and high heels.
- Karnataka Chief Minister Dharam Singh is an inveterate television watcher, whose interests range from news to the latest family serials.
- He was an inveterate essayist and letter writer, renowned for the forceful expression of his opinions (on everything from compost to marching girls) and the ebullience of his wit.
- Richard M. Nixon was an inveterate Cold Warrior whose interest in domestic affairs never matched his passion for foreign affairs.
Synonyms
ingrained, deep-seated, deep-rooted, deep-set, entrenched, established, long-established, congenital
1. 1.1 (of a feeling or habit) long-established and unlikely to change.
  （指情感或习惯）根深蒂固的，成癖的
  Example sentencesExamples
  I will explore some of the more prominent Buddhist techniques for overcoming our inveterate dualism and the disconnected, alienated, disembodied condition it leads to.
  For this reason, as soon as he took office, Ma began to cultivate the attitude of indifference to Lee as a preparation for his inveterate opposition to the central government.
  Its inveterate good manners are ultimately its undoing.
  His was a personable, companionable, bland brand of humour based on the long-running gag that Hope was an inveterate coward.
  The problem is that Fausto, though essentially kind, is an inveterate skirt chaser, and none too discrete at that.
  What distortions one finds in these fictionalized self-portraits and in Madame de Stael's memoirs arise most often from her inveterate idealism and enthusiasm rather than calculation.
  He makes movies about problem people, often inveterate liars, who are found out, but who are so compellingly alive and above the world that people let them pass.
  Ever the inveterate people watcher, I used to sit in the stands and study the folk down in the boxes.
  Agnes was an inveterate correspondent and a great supporter of people in distress and need.
  The three have a lot in common with each other in their inveterate hatred of that ethnic group.
  An inveterate multi-tasker, she's been a model, soundtrack composer, charity activist and personal performer to the British royal family.
  What is certain about Andersen is that he was an inveterate social climber, and managed to latch on to some useful patrons.
  According to the media, people nationwide have developed an offbeat mentality characterized by inveterate hostility to the rich.
  He's been a good friend and his inveterate optimism has been a welcome tonic to my usual cynicism.
  He doesn't deal in heroes and villains, not even loveable rogues, and that's frightening stuff for an inveterate good guy.
  In town for the competition is Phil's arch rival and inveterate cheat Ray and his lovely American daughter Christina.
  I have a democratic suspicion of demands for sanctity as a solution to corruption and other inveterate human failings.
  Every administration, that is, until this one, which from its first days has made clear its inveterate hostility to arms control.
  One of the pleasures of the TV show, The Simpsons is Homer's inveterate stupidity.
  And nobody except the most inveterate optimists expected anything dramatic.
  Synonyms
  confirmed, hardened, chronic, hard-core, incorrigible
  staunch, steadfast, committed, devoted, dedicated

Origin

Late Middle English (referring to disease, in the sense ‘of long standing, chronic’): from Latin inveteratus ‘made old’, past participle of inveterare (based on vetus, veter- ‘old’).

词汇	inveterate
释义	Definition of inveterate in English: inveterate adjective ɪnˈvɛt(ə)rətɪnˈvɛdərət 1attributive Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change. 根深蒂固的，顽固不化的 an inveterate gambler 他是个积习难改的赌徒。 Example sentencesExamples She became an inveterate party-goer and embraced the ‘New Look’ promoted by Christian Dior, with the figure to wear the accompanying tight-waisted skirts and high heels. Bill is an inveterate gambler and has forged Fred's signature for $10,000, which he lost in a crap game. Being an inveterate gambler, the fourth son was only too glad to accept the offer. I crave intellectual respectability despite the fact that I am an inveterate gossip with a hankering for the naughty. In typically home-spun style, it tells the story of Bob, an inveterate procrastinator who is great at accomplishing meaningless tasks but not so hot at getting round to what really matters. An inveterate grassroots activist and organiser, she led the campaign to expose sterilisation abuse in Puerto Rico, where it was rampant. Jarecki succeeds brilliantly, because he had access to tapes and videos made by the Friedmans themselves, a family of manic talkers and inveterate home movie-makers. They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world. We have been in the present house for 35 years, and as an inveterate and incurable hoarder I have been faced with the need to sort things out, and decide quickly what must be kept, and what can sensibly be thrown out at last. Rice, who is an inveterate networker, maintains there is no hidden motives about such a high-powered gathering other than celebrating women in business and public life in Scotland. But I don't feel good either at the sight of inveterate smokers hanging around in back alleys looking like lost souls drifting amid poignant plumes of smoke. Richard M. Nixon was an inveterate Cold Warrior whose interest in domestic affairs never matched his passion for foreign affairs. The Clermont club was founded in 1962 by inveterate gambler Aspinall, in London's Berkeley Square. In the meantime, you may savor the irony of how this inveterate critic of liberal media bias exposed his own bias in such an extraordinary manner. Nice touch for this inveterate jazz fan is the fact that Nick owns a jazz club and who should be performing there but the excellent house band. He was an inveterate essayist and letter writer, renowned for the forceful expression of his opinions (on everything from compost to marching girls) and the ebullience of his wit. He was a congenital reformer, an inveterate crusader. There's plenty here to trap the unwary and baffle even the inveterate gambler! An inveterate adventurer more interested in fun and international intrigue than money, Vallone disdained an airline career and signed on as a ferry pilot. Karnataka Chief Minister Dharam Singh is an inveterate television watcher, whose interests range from news to the latest family serials. Synonyms ingrained, deep-seated, deep-rooted, deep-set, entrenched, established, long-established, congenital ineradicable, incurable, irredeemable 1.1 (of a feeling or habit) long-established and unlikely to change. （指情感或习惯）根深蒂固的，成癖的 his inveterate hostility to what he considered to be the ‘reactionary’ powers Example sentencesExamples What is certain about Andersen is that he was an inveterate social climber, and managed to latch on to some useful patrons. He makes movies about problem people, often inveterate liars, who are found out, but who are so compellingly alive and above the world that people let them pass. Its inveterate good manners are ultimately its undoing. The problem is that Fausto, though essentially kind, is an inveterate skirt chaser, and none too discrete at that. I have a democratic suspicion of demands for sanctity as a solution to corruption and other inveterate human failings. What distortions one finds in these fictionalized self-portraits and in Madame de Stael's memoirs arise most often from her inveterate idealism and enthusiasm rather than calculation. In town for the competition is Phil's arch rival and inveterate cheat Ray and his lovely American daughter Christina. One of the pleasures of the TV show, The Simpsons is Homer's inveterate stupidity. Ever the inveterate people watcher, I used to sit in the stands and study the folk down in the boxes. I will explore some of the more prominent Buddhist techniques for overcoming our inveterate dualism and the disconnected, alienated, disembodied condition it leads to. He's been a good friend and his inveterate optimism has been a welcome tonic to my usual cynicism. For this reason, as soon as he took office, Ma began to cultivate the attitude of indifference to Lee as a preparation for his inveterate opposition to the central government. His was a personable, companionable, bland brand of humour based on the long-running gag that Hope was an inveterate coward. He doesn't deal in heroes and villains, not even loveable rogues, and that's frightening stuff for an inveterate good guy. Every administration, that is, until this one, which from its first days has made clear its inveterate hostility to arms control. And nobody except the most inveterate optimists expected anything dramatic. Agnes was an inveterate correspondent and a great supporter of people in distress and need. According to the media, people nationwide have developed an offbeat mentality characterized by inveterate hostility to the rich. The three have a lot in common with each other in their inveterate hatred of that ethnic group. An inveterate multi-tasker, she's been a model, soundtrack composer, charity activist and personal performer to the British royal family. Synonyms confirmed, hardened, chronic, hard-core, incorrigible habitual, addicted, compulsive, obsessive, obsessional informal pathological, hooked staunch, steadfast, committed, devoted, dedicated deep-dyed, dyed-in-the-wool, thorough, thoroughgoing, out and out, diehard, long-standing Derivatives inveteracy noun ɪnˈvɛt(ə)rəsiɪnˈvɛd(ə)rəsi He has brought back the doctrines of Calvinism in all their inveteracy, and relaxed the inveteracy of his northern accents. Example sentencesExamples The inveteracy of her pursuit is unfathomable for she is completely deprived of pity and compassion. inveterately adverb But the king is inveterately prey to the hungers of the senses, ad pleads pitifully with son after son to take on his senility and gift him youth for some time more. Example sentencesExamples Academics inveterately complain of how little we know, and this book offers some redress. The main action is elaborately Italianate, the commentary inveterately English. For Homer in the early 1870s that ending set the course of his life as an inveterately single man. People at the low end of the scale operate in an inveterately passive state during media exposure. Origin Late Middle English (referring to disease, in the sense 'of long standing, chronic'): from Latin inveteratus 'made old', past participle of inveterare (based on vetus, veter- 'old'). veteran from early 16th century: Veteran comes via French from Latin vetus ‘old’, also the source of inveterate (Late Middle English) ‘long-standing’. Vet, the abbreviation, is recorded from the mid 19th century. The other kind of vet, also mid 19th-century, is a shortening of veterinary [18th] from Latin veterinarius, from veterinae ‘cattle’. Definition of inveterate in US English: inveterate adjectiveinˈvedərətɪnˈvɛdərət 1attributive Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change. 根深蒂固的，顽固不化的 he was an inveterate gambler 他是个积习难改的赌徒。 Example sentencesExamples I crave intellectual respectability despite the fact that I am an inveterate gossip with a hankering for the naughty. There's plenty here to trap the unwary and baffle even the inveterate gambler! Jarecki succeeds brilliantly, because he had access to tapes and videos made by the Friedmans themselves, a family of manic talkers and inveterate home movie-makers. In the meantime, you may savor the irony of how this inveterate critic of liberal media bias exposed his own bias in such an extraordinary manner. Rice, who is an inveterate networker, maintains there is no hidden motives about such a high-powered gathering other than celebrating women in business and public life in Scotland. Being an inveterate gambler, the fourth son was only too glad to accept the offer. But I don't feel good either at the sight of inveterate smokers hanging around in back alleys looking like lost souls drifting amid poignant plumes of smoke. We have been in the present house for 35 years, and as an inveterate and incurable hoarder I have been faced with the need to sort things out, and decide quickly what must be kept, and what can sensibly be thrown out at last. An inveterate grassroots activist and organiser, she led the campaign to expose sterilisation abuse in Puerto Rico, where it was rampant. Bill is an inveterate gambler and has forged Fred's signature for $10,000, which he lost in a crap game. They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world. The Clermont club was founded in 1962 by inveterate gambler Aspinall, in London's Berkeley Square. He was a congenital reformer, an inveterate crusader. In typically home-spun style, it tells the story of Bob, an inveterate procrastinator who is great at accomplishing meaningless tasks but not so hot at getting round to what really matters. Nice touch for this inveterate jazz fan is the fact that Nick owns a jazz club and who should be performing there but the excellent house band. An inveterate adventurer more interested in fun and international intrigue than money, Vallone disdained an airline career and signed on as a ferry pilot. She became an inveterate party-goer and embraced the ‘New Look’ promoted by Christian Dior, with the figure to wear the accompanying tight-waisted skirts and high heels. Karnataka Chief Minister Dharam Singh is an inveterate television watcher, whose interests range from news to the latest family serials. He was an inveterate essayist and letter writer, renowned for the forceful expression of his opinions (on everything from compost to marching girls) and the ebullience of his wit. Richard M. Nixon was an inveterate Cold Warrior whose interest in domestic affairs never matched his passion for foreign affairs. Synonyms ingrained, deep-seated, deep-rooted, deep-set, entrenched, established, long-established, congenital 1.1 (of a feeling or habit) long-established and unlikely to change. （指情感或习惯）根深蒂固的，成癖的 Example sentencesExamples I will explore some of the more prominent Buddhist techniques for overcoming our inveterate dualism and the disconnected, alienated, disembodied condition it leads to. For this reason, as soon as he took office, Ma began to cultivate the attitude of indifference to Lee as a preparation for his inveterate opposition to the central government. Its inveterate good manners are ultimately its undoing. His was a personable, companionable, bland brand of humour based on the long-running gag that Hope was an inveterate coward. The problem is that Fausto, though essentially kind, is an inveterate skirt chaser, and none too discrete at that. What distortions one finds in these fictionalized self-portraits and in Madame de Stael's memoirs arise most often from her inveterate idealism and enthusiasm rather than calculation. He makes movies about problem people, often inveterate liars, who are found out, but who are so compellingly alive and above the world that people let them pass. Ever the inveterate people watcher, I used to sit in the stands and study the folk down in the boxes. Agnes was an inveterate correspondent and a great supporter of people in distress and need. The three have a lot in common with each other in their inveterate hatred of that ethnic group. An inveterate multi-tasker, she's been a model, soundtrack composer, charity activist and personal performer to the British royal family. What is certain about Andersen is that he was an inveterate social climber, and managed to latch on to some useful patrons. According to the media, people nationwide have developed an offbeat mentality characterized by inveterate hostility to the rich. He's been a good friend and his inveterate optimism has been a welcome tonic to my usual cynicism. He doesn't deal in heroes and villains, not even loveable rogues, and that's frightening stuff for an inveterate good guy. In town for the competition is Phil's arch rival and inveterate cheat Ray and his lovely American daughter Christina. I have a democratic suspicion of demands for sanctity as a solution to corruption and other inveterate human failings. Every administration, that is, until this one, which from its first days has made clear its inveterate hostility to arms control. One of the pleasures of the TV show, The Simpsons is Homer's inveterate stupidity. And nobody except the most inveterate optimists expected anything dramatic. Synonyms confirmed, hardened, chronic, hard-core, incorrigible staunch, steadfast, committed, devoted, dedicated Origin Late Middle English (referring to disease, in the sense ‘of long standing, chronic’): from Latin inveteratus ‘made old’, past participle of inveterare (based on vetus, veter- ‘old’).
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