Related Words for old habits die hard

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abandoned
x/x
Adjective, Adjective
above
x/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
acacia
x/x
Noun
accurate
/xx
Adjective
ace
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
active
/x
Adjective, Noun
acutely
x/x
Adverb
advanced
x/
Adjective
adversely
x/x
Adverb
affected
x/x
Adjective, Noun
aged
/
Adjective, Noun
aggressively
x/xx
Adverb
agony
/xx
Noun
alcoholic
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
alive
x/
Adjective
already
x/x
Adverb
alt
/
Noun, Adjective
alter
/x
Verb, Noun
alumni
x/x
Noun
ambitious
x/x
Adjective
analog
/xx
Adjective, Noun
ancestral
x/x
Adjective, Noun
ancient
/x
Adjective, Noun
ankara
/xx
Name
antediluvian
/xx/xx
Adjective, Noun
antigua
x/x
Name
antiquated
/xxx
Adjective
antique
x/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
archaic
x/x
Adjective, Name
ardently
/xx
Adverb
arduous
/xx
Adjective
are
/
Noun
assiduous
x/x
Adjective
attitudes
/xx
Adjective
auld
/
Noun, Adjective
avid
/x
Adjective
awful
/x
Adjective, Adverb
awkward
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
backbreaking
/xx
Adjective
bad
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
badass
/x
Noun, Adjective
badly
/x
Adverb, Adjective
baffling
/xx
Adjective, Noun
baldy
/x
Name
band
/
Noun, Verb
barrels
/x
Noun
bars
/
Noun
beautiful
/xx
Adjective, Noun
behaviors
x/x
Noun
behaviour
x/x
Noun
belly
/x
Noun, Verb
beloved
x/
Adjective, Noun
bible
/x
Name
big
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
binding
/x
Noun, Adjective
bitter
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
black
/
Adjective, Name, Verb
blow
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
blow out
//
Phrase, Verb
blunt
/
Adjective, Name, Verb
boo
/
Noun, Verb
books
/
Noun
boxes
/x
Noun
boy
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
break
/
Verb, Noun
break down
//
Phrase, Verb, Noun
breathe
/
Verb
brick
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
bro
/
Noun
brutal
/x
Adjective
brute
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
buddy
/x
Noun, Verb, Adjective
bully
/x
Noun, Verb, Adjective
bummer
/x
Noun
burdensome
/xx
Adjective
burn out
//
Phrase, Verb, Noun
burnt
/
Adjective
bury
/x
Verb, Noun
bushel
/x
Noun, Verb
busting
/x
Noun, Adjective
busy
/x
Adjective, Verb, Noun
buy it
//
Phrase, Verb
buy the farm
/x/
Phrase, Verb
byron
/x
Name
calculating
/xxx
Adjective
calculative
/xxx
Adjective
callous
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
can
/
Verb, Noun
canonical
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
care
/
Noun, Verb
carefully
/xx
Adverb
catchy
/x
Adjective
ceaselessly
/xx
Adverb
challenge
/x
Noun, Verb
charming
/x
Adjective, Noun
cheap
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
chico
/x
Name
chip
/
Noun, Verb
choices
/x
Noun
choke
/
Verb, Noun
classic
/x
Adjective, Noun
classical
/xx
Adjective, Noun
closely
/x
Adverb
clothes
/
Noun
coarse
/
Adjective
coercive
x/x
Adjective
cold
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
commitment
x/x
Noun
committed
x/x
Adjective
complex
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
complicated
/xxx
Adjective
compulsory
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
con
/
Noun, Verb
conceivable
x/xx
Adjective
conclusive
x/x
Adjective
concrete
x/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
conduct
x/
Noun, Verb
conk out
//
Phrase, Verb
conniving
x/x
Adjective
conscientiously
xx/xx
Adverb
considerable
x/xxx
Adjective, Noun
conventional
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
convertible
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
convincing
x/x
Adjective, Noun
costly
/x
Adjective
costumes
x/
Noun
covered
/x
Adjective
crappy
/x
Adjective
crash
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
crazy
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
croak
/
Noun, Verb
cruel
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
crusty
/x
Adjective, Noun
cube
/
Noun, Verb
cultures
/x
Verb
cumbersome
/xx
Adjective
current
/x
Adjective, Noun
customary
/xxx
Adjective, Noun
customs
/x
Noun
cut
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
dad
/
Noun, Verb
daddy
/x
Noun, Verb, Adjective
dado
/x
Noun, Verb
damning
/x
Adjective, Noun
darkened
/x
Adjective
dated
/x
Adjective
daunting
/x
Adjective, Noun
dead
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
dear
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
death
/
Noun
deceased
x/
Adjective, Noun
decommissioned
xx/x
Verb
decrepit
x/x
Adjective
dedicated
/xxx
Adjective
deeply
/x
Adverb
defunct
x/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
delicate
/xx
Adjective, Noun
demanding
x/x
Adjective
demise
x/
Noun, Verb
desperately
/xxx
Adverb
die out
//
Phrase, Verb
died
/
Verb
diets
/x
Noun
difficile
/xx
Adjective
difficult
/xx
Adjective, Verb
difficulties
/xxx
Noun
dilapidated
x/xxx
Adjective
diligent
/xx
Adjective
dire
/
Adjective, Noun
dirty
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Verb
disappear
xx/
Verb
disc
/
Noun, Verb
disk
/
Noun, Verb
distressing
x/x
Adjective
do
/
Verb, Noun, Adverb
doggedly
/xx
Adverb
donkey
/x
Noun
draconian
x/xx
Adjective
drown
/
Verb, Noun
dry
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
dude
/
Noun, Verb
dur
x
Noun, Adjective
dura
/x
Noun
duro
/x
Name
durum
/x
Noun
earlier
/xx
Adverb, Adjective
earnest
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
easiest
/xx
Adjective
easily
/xx
Adverb
easygoing
/x/x
Adjective
effort
/x
Noun, Verb
effortful
/xx
Adjective
elder
/x
Noun, Verb
elderly
/xx
Adjective, Noun
elusive
x/x
Adjective
embarrassing
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
emeritus
x/xx
Noun, Adjective
end
/
Noun, Verb
endeavour
x/x
Noun, Verb
enduring
x/x
Adjective, Noun
energetically
xx/xx
Adverb
enormous
x/x
Adjective
ent
/
Noun, Verb
erect
x/
Adjective, Verb
erstwhile
/x
Adjective, Adverb
every
/xx
Noun
evil
/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
exacting
x/x
Adjective
excellent
/xx
Adjective, Adverb
existing
x/x
Adjective
exit
/x
Noun, Verb
expensive
x/x
Adjective
experienced
x/xx
Adjective
expire
x/
Verb
extensive
x/x
Adjective
extinction
x/x
Noun
extremely
x/x
Adverb
factual
/xx
Adjective, Noun
fail
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
failings
/x
Noun
fall
/
Verb, Noun
familiar
x/x
Adjective, Noun
famous
/x
Adjective, Verb
far
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
fashioned
/x
Adjective
fast
/
Adverb, Noun, Adjective, Verb
fatalities
x/xx
Noun
fate
/
Noun, Verb
father
/x
Noun, Verb
fella
/x
Noun
fermented
x/x
Adjective
ferocious
x/x
Adjective
fervently
/xx
Adverb
fierce
/
Adjective, Adverb
fine
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
firm
/
Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb
fixed
/
Adjective
fond
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
footer
/x
Noun, Verb
forced
/
Adjective
forceful
/x
Adjective
forcible
/xx
Adjective
foregoing
x/x
Adjective
forfeit
/x
Verb, Noun, Adjective
format
/x
Noun, Verb
former
/x
Adjective, Noun
formerly
/xx
Adverb
formidable
/xxx
Adjective
fort
/
Noun, Verb
fortress
/x
Noun, Verb
fractious
/x
Adjective
funeral
/xx
Noun, Adjective
furiously
/xxx
Adverb
fussy
/x
Adjective, Noun
gaga
/x
Noun, Adjective
gallon
/x
Noun
genuine
/xx
Adjective
geriatric
xx/x
Adjective, Name
get
/
Verb, Noun
give out
//
Phrase, Verb
give way
//
Phrase, Verb
gland
/
Noun
glassy
/x
Adjective, Noun
go
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
goner
/x
Noun
good
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
gothic
/x
Adjective, Name
governed
/x
Noun
grandad
/x
Noun
grandfather
/xx
Noun, Verb
grandpa
/x
Noun
grandparent
/xx
Noun, Verb
grave
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
gray
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
great
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
greatly
/x
Adverb
grey
/
Adjective, Name, Verb
grim
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
gritty
/x
Adjective
grueling
/xx
Adjective, Noun
gruelling
/x
Adjective, Noun
habit
/x
Noun, Verb
hardball
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
hardcore
//
Noun, Adjective, Adverb
hardened
/x
Adjective
harder
/x
Noun
hardly
/x
Adverb
hardness
/x
Noun
hardship
/x
Noun, Verb
hardware
/x
Noun
hardwood
/x
Noun, Adjective
hardworking
/xx
Adjective
harm
/
Noun, Verb
harsh
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
harte
/
Name
hawkish
/x
Adjective
heartbreaking
/xx
Noun, Adjective
heartily
/xx
Adverb
heartless
/x
Adjective
heaven
/x
Noun, Verb
heavily
/xx
Adverb
heavy
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
hectic
/x
Adjective, Noun
hell
/
Noun, Adverb, Verb
herculean
x/xx
Adjective
herd
/
Noun, Verb
high
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
highly
/x
Adverb
historic
x/x
Adjective, Noun
historical
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
hoar
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
hoary
/x
Adjective
hobbies
/x
Noun
homey
/x
Adjective, Noun
honored
/x
Adjective
honoured
/x
Adjective
horny
/x
Adjective
hoss
/
Noun
hot
/
Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
hotshot
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
house
/
Noun, Verb
huge
/
Adjective
hunger
/x
Noun, Verb
hurt
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
hustle
/x
Noun, Verb
hygiene
/x
Noun
idiosyncrasies
xxx/xx
Noun
ill
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
immature
xx/
Adjective, Noun
immemorial
xx/xx
Adjective
impossible
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
impractical
x/xx
Adjective
impress
x/
Verb, Noun
improperly
x/xx
Adverb
inch
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
inconvenient
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
industrious
x/xx
Adjective
inflexible
x/xx
Adjective
insensitive
x/xx
Adjective
intemperate
x/xx
Adjective, Verb
intense
x/
Adjective
intensive
x/x
Adjective, Noun
intractable
x/xx
Adjective
intricate
/xx
Adjective, Verb
iron
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
ironclad
/xx
Adjective, Noun
irrefutable
xx/xx
Adjective
keen
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
kick the bucket
/x/x
Phrase, Verb
killed
/
Adjective
kilometer
x/xx
Noun
knockout
/x
Noun, Adjective
knotty
/x
Adjective
koo
/
Name
laborious
x/xx
Adjective
lao
/
Name, Adjective
laotian
x/x
Adjective, Noun
large
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
lasted
/x
Verb
late
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
laws
/
Noun
legacy
/xx
Noun, Adjective
lie
/
Verb, Noun
life
/
Noun, Verb
lifestyles
/x
Noun
lightly
/x
Adverb
litigious
x/x
Adjective
little
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
live
/
Verb, Adjective, Adverb
lonely
/x
Adjective
long
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
longtime
/x
Adjective, Adverb
lot
/
Noun, Verb
loud
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
lovable
/xx
Adjective
lovely
/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
major
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
make
/
Verb, Noun
mal
/
Noun
malfunction
x/x
Noun, Verb
man
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
manly
/x
Adjective, Name
mannerisms
/xxx
Noun
manners
/x
Noun
many
/x
Adjective, Noun
massive
/x
Adjective, Noun
mate
/
Noun, Verb
material
x/xx
Noun, Adjective, Verb
matrix
/x
Noun
mature
x/
Adjective, Verb
mercilessly
/xxx
Adverb
metal
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
middle
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
millimeter
/xxx
Noun
million
/x
Noun, Adjective
mold
/
Noun, Verb
morals
/x
Verb
mores
/x
Noun
mortal
/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
mortality
x/xx
Noun
mossy
/x
Adjective, Noun
mould
/
Noun, Verb
mourn
/
Verb, Noun
much
/
Adverb, Adjective, Noun
mussel
/x
Noun
nail
/
Noun, Verb
nasty
/x
Adjective, Noun
naughty
/x
Adjective, Verb
near
/
Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
new
/
Adjective, Name, Adverb, Verb
not
/
Adverb, Noun
nothing
/x
Noun, Adverb, Adjective
obsessions
x/x
Adjective
obsolete
xx/
Adjective, Verb
of age
//
Phrase
olden
/x
Adjective, Name, Verb
older
/x
Adjective, Noun
ole
/
Adjective, Name
one
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
onerous
/xx
Adjective
original
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
ossified
/xx
Adjective
other
/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
ounce
/
Noun
outdated
/xx
Adjective
outgoing
/xx
Adjective, Noun
outmoded
x/x
Adjective
outspoken
//x
Adjective
overage
/xx
Noun, Adjective, Verb
painful
/x
Adjective
painstaking
/xx
Noun, Adjective
pall
/
Noun, Verb
paper
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
particular
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
pass
/
Verb, Noun
pass away
/x/
Phrase, Verb
passionately
/xxx
Adverb
past
/
Noun, Adjective, Adverb
patched
/
Adjective
patterns
/x
Adjective
paved
/
Adjective
penal
/x
Adjective
penalty
/xx
Noun
perish
/x
Verb
persevering
xx/x
Noun, Adjective
persistently
x/xx
Adverb
petrified
/xx
Adjective
petrous
xx
Adjective
physical
/xx
Adjective, Noun
pica
/x
Noun
picky
/x
Adjective, Noun
poor
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
poorly
/x
Adverb, Adjective
pop off
//
Phrase, Verb
pound
/
Noun, Verb
pounder
/x
Noun
powerful
/xx
Adjective, Adverb
practice
/x
Noun, Verb
preceding
x/x
Adjective
predefined
xx/
Adjective
predilections
xx/x
Noun
preoccupations
xxx/x
Noun
prevalent
/xx
Adjective, Noun
previous
/xx
Adjective, Noun
printable
/xx
Adjective, Noun
printed
/x
Adjective
prior
/x
Adverb, Adjective, Noun
problematic
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
problematical
xx/xx
Adjective
propensities
x/xx
Noun
protracted
x/x
Adjective
punches
/x
Noun, Verb
puncture
/x
Noun, Verb
punishing
/xx
Adjective, Noun
queens
/
Noun
queer
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
quick
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
quirks
/
Noun
quite
/
Adverb, Noun
rare
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
raw
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
real
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
rebirth
x/
Noun, Verb
reddish
/x
Adjective, Noun
regulated
/xxx
Adjective
relentless
x/x
Adjective
reliable
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
resolutely
/xxx
Adverb
retired
x/
Adjective
rigid
/x
Adjective, Noun
rigorous
/xx
Adjective
rigour
//
Noun
rivets
/x
Noun
robes
/
Noun
robust
x/
Adjective
rock
/
Noun, Verb
rocky
/x
Adjective, Name
rot
/
Noun, Verb
rough
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
roundly
/x
Adverb
routines
x/
Noun
rude
/
Adjective
rugged
/x
Adjective
rusty
/x
Adjective, Noun
ruthless
/x
Adjective
sad
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
same
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
savage
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
scarcely
/x
Adverb
schacht
/
Adverb
scheming
/x
Adjective, Noun
school
/
Noun, Verb
scrape
/
Verb, Noun
seater
/x
Noun
secondhand
/xx
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
selfsame
//
Noun, Adjective
senescent
x/x
Adjective
senile
/x
Adjective, Noun
senior
/x
Adjective, Name
serious
/xx
Adjective, Adverb
seriously
/xxx
Adverb
serve
/
Verb, Noun
set
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
severe
x/
Adjective, Noun
sharp
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
shoot
/
Verb, Noun
short
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
shrewd
/
Adjective
significant
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
simple
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
sincerely
x/x
Adverb
single
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
skills
/
Noun
slam
/
Noun, Verb
slow
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun, Adverb
smart
/
Adjective, Name, Verb
soft
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
solid
/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
sorely
/x
Adverb
sorrow
/x
Noun, Verb
soul
/
Noun, Verb
soured
/x
Adjective
specific
x/x
Adjective, Noun
stale
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
stamp
/
Noun, Verb
standstill
/x
Noun
star
/
Noun, Verb
stare
/
Verb, Noun
stark
/
Adjective, Name, Adverb, Verb
starve
/
Verb
stay
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective, Adverb
steely
/x
Adjective, Noun
stereotypical
xxx/xx
Adjective
stern
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
sticky
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
stiff
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
stony
/x
Noun, Adjective
strength
/
Noun, Verb
strenuous
/xx
Adjective
stressful
/x
Adjective
strict
/
Adjective
strident
/x
Adjective, Noun
stringent
/x
Adjective
strong
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
stubborn
/x
Adjective, Noun
stuffy
/x
Adjective, Noun
styles
/
Noun
succumb
x/
Verb
suffocate
/xx
Verb, Adjective
suits
/
Adjective
sunset
/x
Noun, Verb
superstitious
xx/x
Adjective
sure
/
Adjective, Adverb
survive
x/
Verb
tall
/
Adjective, Noun
tangible
/xx
Adjective, Noun
tastes
/
Noun, Verb
tenacious
x/x
Adjective
tenths
/
Noun
terrible
/xx
Adjective, Adverb
the
x
Adverb, Noun
thing
/
Noun, Verb
third
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
this
/
Adverb, Noun
thorny
/x
Adjective
thorough
/x
Adjective, Noun
ticklish
/xx
Adjective
tight
/
Adjective, Adverb, Verb
tireless
/xx
Adjective
tiresome
/xx
Adjective
tortuous
/xx
Adjective
tough
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
tractable
/xx
Adjective
traditional
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
trap
/
Noun, Verb
tricky
/x
Adjective
trite
/
Adjective, Noun
troubled
/x
Adjective
troublesome
/xx
Adjective
trying
/x
Adjective, Noun
unabated
xx/x
Adjective
uncle
/x
Noun, Verb
unclear
x/
Adjective, Verb
uncomfortable
x/xxx
Adjective
uncompromising
x/xxx
Adjective
uneasy
x/x
Adjective
unenviable
x/xxx
Adjective
uninteresting
x/xx
Adjective
unkind
x/
Adjective
unlikely
x/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
untiring
x/x
Adjective
uphill
//
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
urban
/x
Adjective, Name
urgently
/xx
Adverb
usages
/xx
Noun
used
/
Verb, Adjective
usual
/xx
Adjective, Noun
vain
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
vehemently
/xxx
Adverb
velar
x/
Adjective, Noun
venerable
/xxx
Adjective, Noun
version
/x
Noun, Verb
very
/x
Adverb, Adjective
veteran
/xx
Noun, Adjective
vexed
/
Adjective
vices
/x
Adjective
vicious
/x
Adjective, Noun
vigorous
/xx
Adjective
vintage
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
violent
/xx
Adjective, Verb, Noun
vitreous
/xx
Adjective, Noun
warmly
/x
Adverb
ways
/
Noun
weighty
/x
Adjective
well
/
Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb
whole
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
wilt
/
Verb, Noun
wise
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
wither
/x
Verb, Noun, Adverb
woeful
/x
Adjective
wood
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
woody
/x
Noun, Adjective
work
/
Noun, Verb
worn
/
Adjective
wretched
/x
Adjective
wrinkle
/x
Noun, Verb
wrong
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
years
/
Noun
yellowed
/x
Adjective
yield
/
Noun, Verb
young
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb