Synonyms of habituate

habituate

verb

hə-ˈbi-chə-ˌwāt 

as in to haunt

to go to or spend time in often

the sort of lounge lizard known to habituate bars and nightclubs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• haunt
• frequent
• visit
• affect
• hang (at)
• resort (to)
• invade
• patronize
• attend
• run (in)
• call (on or upon)
• infest
• stay (at)
• overrun
• swarm
• stop (by or in)
• stop (over)
• take in
• drop in
• camp (out in)
• drop by
• pop (in)
• tarry (in)
• sojourn (at)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• avoid
• shun
• escape
• evade
• shake
• elude
• eschew
• dodge
• duck

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of habituate

The process of learning to suppress a response to the rewarding stimulus happens at the level of the reward system—there is a decrease in the size of the dopamine release caused by a particular reward cue once the circuit has become habituated. —Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026

But last year, one of the state’s 10 resurgent wolf packs became unusually habituated to hunting and eating livestock instead of wild prey. —Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 6 Feb. 2026

Many outfitters include outings with Onçafari, a Brazilian wildlife conservation organization initially created to help habituate jaguars to game vehicles. —Laura Kiniry, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026

In fact, they’d merely been habituated, the way a bird learns to ignore a rhino. —AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025