English-Portuguese translations for inveterate

• inveterado
  Nem sempre tal pareceu acontecer, por inveterado hábito. But because of inveterate habit, it does not always appear to be like this.
  A oposição à homossexualidade é simplesmente uma forma de opinião baseada num preconceito inveterado. Opposition to homosexuality is simply a form of opinion based on inveterate prejudice.
  Apesar de eu ser um velho agricultor e um inveterado comedor de carne, devo dizer que compreendo as pessoas que hoje sentem essa apreensão. Despite the fact that I am an old farmer and an inveterate meat-eater, I can nowadays understand people who feel like that.

Definition of inveterate

• firmly established from having been around for a long time; of long standing
• Having had a habit for a long time
• Malignant; virulent; spiteful
• To fix and settle after a long time; to entrench

Examples

• an inveterate disease
• an inveterate habit
• an inveterate idler
• an inveterate smoker
• an inveterate traveller

Related words

• inveteracy
• inveterately