usually

English

Etymology

From Middle English usualli, equivalent to usual +‎ -ly. Displaced native Old English ġewunelīċe.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːʒ(ʊə)li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːʒu(ə)li/, /ˈjuːʒəli/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːʒju(ə)li/

Adverb

usually (comparative more usually, superlative most usually)

1. Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.

   Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend ; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous, […].

2. Under normal conditions.

Synonyms

• (most of the time): generally, mainly, commonly, regularly, mostly, on the whole, in the main, for the most part, by and large, most often, ordinarily, wontedly; see also Thesaurus:usually
• (under normal conditions): customarily, habitually, wontly, normally, routinely, as a rule; see also Thesaurus:normally

Related terms

• use

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