ACCUSTOMED


Meaning of ACCUSTOMED in English

1.

If you are ~ to something, you know it so well or have experienced it so often that it seems natural, unsurprising, or easy to deal with.

I was ~ to being the only child at a table full of adults...

= used

ADJ: v-link ADJ to n/-ing

2.

When your eyes become ~ to darkness or bright light, they adjust so that you start to be able to see things, after not being able to see properly at first.

My eyes were becoming ~ to the gloom.

ADJ: v-link ADJ to n

3.

You can use ~ to describe an action that someone usually does, a quality that they usually show, or an object that they usually use.

He took up his ~ position with his back to the fire...

Freed acted with his ~ shrewdness.

...his ~ glass of whisky.

= usual, habitual

ADJ: poss ADJ n

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