All 4 Uses
accustomed
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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- After a while my eyes become accustomed to it.†
Part 1accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- Sometimes she stopped with a word or two of apology about the interruption, sometimes with a fragment of news, and he was accustomed to this as a part of office life.†
Part 2 *
- We're really accustomed to making mileage.†
Part 3
- Because we're unaccustomed to it, we don't usually see that there's a third possible logical term equal to yes and no which is capable of expanding our understanding in an unrecognized direction.†
Part 3unaccustomed to = not used to (not adapted to something, so it seems normal)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccustomed to means not and reverses the meaning of accustomed to. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definitions:
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(1)
(accustom) to make someone used to something
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)In professional environments, you may make a better impression by saying one is accustomed to something rather than one is used to something. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)