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Antonyms for Custom
ˈkʌs təmcus·tom

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English Synonyms and Antonyms2.7 / 3 votes

  1. custom

    Habit is a tendency or inclination toward an action or condition, which by repetition has become easy, spontaneous, or even unconscious, or an action or regular series of actions, or a condition so induced. Custom is the uniform doing of the same act in the same circumstance for a definite reason; routine is the doing of customary acts in a regular and uniform sequence and is more mechanical than custom. It is the custom of tradesmen to open at a uniform hour, and to follow a regular routine of business until closing-time. Habit always includes an involuntary tendency, natural or acquired, greatly strengthened by frequent repetition of the act, and may be uncontrollable, or even unconscious. Habitude is habitual relation or association. Custom is chiefly used of the action of many; habit of the action of one; we speak of the customs of society, the habits of an individual. Fashion is the generally recognized custom in the smaller matters, especially in dress. A rule is prescribed either by some external authority or by one's own will; as, it is the rule of the house; or, I make it my invariable rule. System is the coordination of many acts or things into a unity, and is more and better than routine. Use and usage denote the manner of using something; we speak of one person's use of language, but of the usage of many; a use or usage is almost always a habit. Practise is the active doing of something in a systematic way; we do not speak of the practise, but of the habit of going to sleep; we speak of a tradesman's custom, a lawyer's or a physician's practise. Educationally, practise is the voluntary and persistent attempt to make skill a habit; as, practise in penmanship. Wont is blind and instinctive habit like that which attaches an animal to a locality: the word is now almost wholly poetic. Compare DRESS.

    Synonyms:
    fashion, habit, habitude, practise, routine, rule, system, usage, use, wont

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 2 votes

  1. custom

    Antonyms:
    law, regulation, dictate, command, rule, disuse, nonobservance, desuetude

    Synonyms:
    manner, habit, use, usage, fashion, practice, prescription

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Princeton's WordNet2.3 / 3 votes

  1. custom, usage, usancenoun

    accepted or habitual practice

    Synonyms:
    impost, utilisation, consumption, usance, customs, employment, usage, tradition, use, customs duty, exercise, utilization, economic consumption, use of goods and services, custom

  2. custom, traditionnoun

    a specific practice of long standing

    Synonyms:
    tradition, usage, customs, customs duty, impost, custom, usance

  3. customs, customs duty, custom, impostnoun

    money collected under a tariff

    Synonyms:
    custom, usance, customs, usage, springer, tradition, customs duty, impost

  4. customadjective

    habitual patronage

    "I have given this tailor my custom for many years"

    Synonyms:
    tradition, usage, customs, customs duty, impost, usance

  5. custom-made, customadjective

    made according to the specifications of an individual

    Synonyms:
    custom-made, custom

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words2.0 / 2 votes

  1. customnoun

    Synonyms:
    usage, practice, conventionality, patronage, impost, duty, tribute

How to use Custom in a sentence?

  1. David Hume:

    Custom is the great guide of human life.

  2. H.H. Munro (Saki):

    Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

  3. Nancy Pelosi:

    If you really truly want to honor Dr. King, don't dishonor him by using a congressional custom as an excuse for protecting our democracy.

  4. Bram Cohen:

    It involves completely normal hardware rather than super custom and expensive stuff, most people have some amount of unused storage space they can do it with already.

  5. Curt Viebranz:

    It's hard to believe, but only 50 years after his death, in the early 1850s, the home was in complete disrepair, a woman was taking a steamer (on the Potomac). It was the custom of the captain to ring the bell when he got in front of Mount Vernon. She looked up. She saw the shape of the house.

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#1212custom
#1362command
#1419rule
#2748regulation
#20832dictate
#79183disuse

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