Vocabulary
Accustomed
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
customary; usual.
Urdu meaning
عادی، روایت،دستور
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Living in this country, you grow accustomed to being toldlieslike thisregularly.
- Unfortunately, the residents of the merged areas have become too accustomed to decisions being imposed on them and being made from the angle of `administering` them.
- So embedded in and accustomed to collectivism was the early community that, amidst early religio-political wars, they struggled under the banner of jama`a (community).
- For far too long, to Hindutva`s chagrin, the world had got accustomed to engaging with India`s Nehruvian élan that came with an upright moral spine.
- Many Pakistanis and, I am sure, Indians, may have become accustomed to such recurrences every few years.
Synonyms
customary, usual, normal, habitual, familiar, regular, routine,
Antonyms
unusual, unaccustomed, unfamiliar, unused to
Curator example
“the money would not have kept Sualeha in his accustomed lifestyle”
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