单词 | wont |
释义 | wont —wontless, adj. /wawnt, wohnt, wunt/, adj., n., v., wont, wont or wonted, wonting. adj. 1. accustomed; used (usually fol. by an infinitive): He was wont to rise at dawn. n. 2. custom; habit; practice: It was her wont to walk three miles before breakfast. v.t. 3. to accustom (a person), as to a thing. 4. to render (a thing) customary or usual (usually used passively). v.i. 5. Archaic. to be wont. [1300-50; (adj.) ME wont, woned, OE gewunod, ptp. of gewunian to be used to (see WON2); c. G gewöhnt; (v.) ME, back formation from WONTED or wont (ptp.); (n.) appar. from conflation of wont (ptp.) with obs. wone wish, in certain stereotyped phrases] Syn. 1. habituated, wonted. 2. use. Ant. 1. unaccustomed. |
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