wonted
- 1Usual for a particular person or thing, as a matter of habit or custom.
The senator answered the reporters with her wonted bluntness.
By noon the square had regained its wonted bustle of traders and tourists.
Similarusual, customary, habitual, accustomed, characteristic
Oppositeunusual, unwonted, uncharacteristic
Note
The adjective grew out of the noun wont, custom or habit, which goes back through Middle English wone to Old English wuna. It sits before its noun, usually after a possessive or the: Rose Villa resumes its wonted appearance in Dickens's Sketches by Boz (1836), and Melville writes of the wonted fluctuations of parties. Its register is literary, a dignified way of saying usual.
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Origin
From Middle English woonted (“usual, customary”), from wont (“custom, habit, practice”), an alteration of wone, from Old English wuna (“custom, habit, practice; usual”), from Proto-Germanic *wunô (“custom, practice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”). It is cognate with Old Frisian wona or wuna and Old High German giwona, both meaning “custom”.