Synonyms of habituated

habituated 1 of 2

adjective

as in accustomed

being in the habit or custom

not only did the early-morning anchorman become habituated to getting up early, he found he actually liked it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• accustomed
• used
• wont
• prone
• given
• liable
• apt
• experienced
• inured
• hardened
• likely
• inclined
• seasoned
• practiced
• veteran
• hooked
• addicted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unaccustomed
• unused
• unwonted
• unlikely
• averse
• opposed
• unapt
• inexperienced
• disinclined
• new
• unseasoned
• weaned
• disaccustomed

habituated

2 of 2

verb

past tense of habituate

as in haunted

to go to or spend time in often

the sort of lounge lizard known to habituate bars and nightclubs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• haunted
• frequented
• visited
• affected
• hung (at)
• resorted (to)
• invaded
• patronized
• infested
• attended
• swarmed
• ran (in)
• called (on or upon)
• stopped (by or in)
• stopped (over)
• dropped in
• stayed (at)
• dropped by
• camped (out in)
• popped (in)
• took in
• overran
• sojourned (at)
• tarried (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• avoided
• shunned
• escaped
• shook
• evaded
• eluded
• ducked
• eschewed
• dodged

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of habituated

Adjective

Wild animals that learn to associate humans with food become habituated, losing their natural wariness. — Emily Hayes, Martha Stewart, 7 June 2026

This orangutan is well habituated and sometimes come to a nearby feeding station for food. — New Atlas, 29 Mar. 2026

As the residential community around Lake Tahoe has grown, bears have been pushed further uphill and become habituated to human food. — Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026

Over the years, individual dingoes deemed too habituated to humans have been euthanized, in consultation with the Butchulla people. — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 24 Jan. 2026

In October, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, with help from federal conservation officials, killed four wolves from the Beyem Seyo pack, which had become unusually habituated to preying on cattle from ranches in Sierra Valley. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 6 Jan. 2026

But the study authors claim that the process begins much earlier, when animals become habituated to human environments. — Marina Wang, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2025

Using long-term dietary data of habituated chimpanzees from each of the two field sites, the researchers found that chimpanzees consume about 14 grams of pure ethanol per day of foraging, Dudley said. — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025

The cats have become habituated to the sounds of vehicles, and six jaguars are presently collared and tracked, making their entire life stories visible to researchers. — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2025

Verb

First, we’ve been habituated to bite-sized texts like, well… texts, Reddit, email and Instagram captions. — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026

In some cases, DEEP said loud noises are not effective at scaring away bears, especially ones that have already been habituated. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026

With active conflicts in many parts of the world such as Russia-Ukraine, Pakistan-Afghanistan, and in the Middle East, or humanitarian disaster as in Somalia, the people and states in the world are becoming increasingly war-habituated. — Debidatta A. Mahapatra, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026

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

Even Americans who have grown habituated to Trump’s excesses have been shaken by these killings and the reflexively cruel and dishonest response from the administration. — Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026

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

These sediments, the researchers observed, had low bacterial diversity compared to other surrounding sediments, and the bacteria came from families habituated to alkaline environments, such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents or alkaline hot springs. — Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 9 Sep. 2025