Word Meanings - INVETERATELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In an inveterate manner or degree. "Inveterately tough." Hawthorne.
Related words: (words related to INVETERATELY)
- MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - TOUGH-CAKE
See - TOUGHEN
To grow or make tough, or tougher. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - INVETERATE
1. Old; long-established. It is an inveterate and received opinion. Bacon. 2. Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse. Heal the inveterate canker of one wound. - TOUGH-HEAD
The ruddy duck. - TOUGHLY
In a tough manner. - TOUGH-PITCH
The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake. - DEGREE
A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - INVETERATELY
In an inveterate manner or degree. "Inveterately tough." Hawthorne. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - TOUGHISH
Tough in a slight degree. - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - TOUGH
toh, akin to D. taai, LG. taa, tage, tau, OHG. zahi, G. zähe, and 1. Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough. - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - INVETERATENESS
Inveteracy. Sir T. Browne. - TOUGHNESS
The quality or state of being tough. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.