<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.</li><li>Synonyms: habitual, constant, hardened.</li><li>firmly established by long continuance, as a disease, habit, practice, feeling, etc.; chronic.</li><li>Synonyms: rooted, fixed, set.</li></ul>