Usually means: Firmly established by long persistence.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word inveterate:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. inveterate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inveterate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inveterate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inveterate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inveterate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inveterate, inveterate: Wordnik
  7. inveterate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inveterate: Wiktionary
  9. inveterate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inveterate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inveterate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inveterate: Dictionary.com
  13. inveterate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inveterate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inveterate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. inveterate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Inveterate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. inveterate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. inveterate: Free Dictionary
  20. inveterate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. inveterate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. inveterate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. inveterate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inveterate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. inveterate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inveterate: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  firmly established from having been around for a long time; of long standing
adjective:  (of a person) Having had a habit for a long time
adjective:  Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
verb:  (obsolete) To fix and settle after a long time; to entrench.

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