usually
advCA, UK, US /ˈjuːʒʊəli/ · US /ˈju.ʒu.(ə.)li/
Etymology From Middle English usualli, equivalent to usual + -ly. Broadly displaced native Old English ġewunelīċe (from which English wontly).
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.
- 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,[…].1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
2
Under normal conditions.
- Synonyms
27 terms
generally, mainly, commonly, regularly, mostly, on the whole, in the main, for the most part, by and large, most often, ordinarily, wontedly, customarily, habitually, wontly, normally, routinely, as a rule, conventionally, in general, most of the time, nine times out of ten, oftest, predominantly, principally, typically, usually- Antonyms
- forever, occasionally, uniformly
- Related terms
- use, frequently, often, frequency
- Hypernyms
- mostly
- Hyponyms
- regularly