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ACCUSTOMED TO
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In the habit of or adapted to
Example:
we are used to better service in this restaurant
Synonyms:
accustomed to; used to
Classified under:
Similar:
used to; wont to (in the habit of doing something)
Antonym:
unaccustomed to (not habituated to; unfamiliar with)
Context examples:
Accustomed to John Reed's abuse, I never had an idea of replying to it; my care was how to endure the blow which would certainly follow the insult.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The proud lord of Holdernesse was not accustomed to be so rated in his own ducal hall.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her face was large and square and red, with fierce, thick brows, and the eyes of one who was accustomed to rule.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Certainly I had been accustomed to every luxury at Maple Grove; but I did assure him that two carriages were not necessary to my happiness, nor were spacious apartments.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance I had been hitherto accustomed to call mine.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Lady St. Simon said something about ‘jumping a claim.’ She was accustomed to use slang of the kind.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"I'm more accustomed to zero weather."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I suppose you’re like Mr. Van Weyden there, accustomed to having things done for you.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The physiological process through which an organism grows accustomed to a new environment.
(Acclimatization, NCI Thesaurus)
The queen likewise ordered the thinnest silks that could be gotten, to make me clothes, not much thicker than an English blanket, very cumbersome till I was accustomed to them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
