Meanings
comparative more usually · superlative most usually
- Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.
Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work.
2 more examples
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, →OCLCThe coronavirus shock has made the economic precariousness — usually seen in scattershot fashion — evident everywhere at once.
2020 April 16, Patricia Cohen, “Straggling in a Good Economy, and Now Struggling in a Crisis”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2020Synonyms: generally
- Under normal conditions.
Synonyms: customarily
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbMost of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.
adverbUnder normal conditions.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbunder normal conditions
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishusualli
- Englishusually
From Middle English usualli, equivalent to usual + -ly. Broadly displaced native Old English ġewunelīċe (from which English wontly).
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans gewoonlik
- gewoonlikmost of the time
Arabic عَادَةً
- عَادَةً (ʕādatan)most of the time
Bengali সাধারণ ভাবে
- সাধারণ ভাবে (śadharon bhabe)most of the time
Bulgarian обикновено
- обикновено (obiknoveno)most of the time
Catalan normalment
- normalmentmost of the time
Chinese Cantonese 平時 /平时
- 平時 /平时 (ping⁴ si⁴)most of the time
Chinese Mandarin 通常
- 通常 (tōngcháng)most of the time
Czech obvykle
- obvyklemost of the time
Danish som regel, sædvanligvis
- som regelmost of the time
- sædvanligvismost of the time
Dutch meestal, gewoonlijk
- meestalmost of the time
- gewoonlijkmost of the time
Esperanto kutime, komune
- kutimemost of the time
- komunemost of the time
Estonian tavaliselt, harilikult
- tavaliseltmost of the time
- harilikultmost of the time
Finnish yleensä, tavallisesti
- yleensämost of the time
- tavallisestimost of the time
- useimmitenmost of the time
French généralement, habituellement
- généralementmost of the time
- habituellementmost of the time
- d'habitudemost of the time
- normalementmost of the time
- usuellementmost of the time
German gewöhnlich
- gewöhnlichmost of the time
Greek συνήθως
- συνήθως (syníthos)most of the time
Hebrew בדרך כלל
- בדרך כללmost of the time
Hindi सामान्यतः
- सामान्यतः (sāmānyataḥ)most of the time
Hungarian általában, rendszerint
- általábanmost of the time
- rendszerintmost of the time
Icelandic oftast
- oftastmost of the time
Indonesian biasanya
- biasanyamost of the time
Irish go hiondúil
- go hiondúilmost of the time
Italian di solito, generalmente
- di solitomost of the time
- generalmentemost of the time
- solitamentemost of the time
Japanese 通常, たいてい
- 通常 (tsūjō)most of the time
- たいてい (taitei)most of the time
Latvian parasti
- parastimost of the time
Lithuanian paprastai
- paprastaimost of the time
Norwegian vanligvis
- vanligvismost of the time
Persian معمولاً
- معمولاً (ma'mulan)most of the time
Polish zwykle, zazwyczaj
- zwyklemost of the time
- zazwyczajmost of the time
Portuguese geralmente
- geralmentemost of the time
Romanian de obicei, în general
- de obiceimost of the time
- în generalmost of the time
Russian обы́чно
- обы́чно (obýčno)most of the time
Scottish Gaelic mar as trice, mar bu trice
- mar as tricemost of the time
- mar bu tricemost of the time
Spanish usualmente
- usualmentemost of the time
Swahili kwa kawaida
- kwa kawaidamost of the time
Swedish vanligtvis
- vanligtvismost of the time
Turkish genellikle, genelde
- genelliklemost of the time
- geneldemost of the time
Ukrainian зазвича́й
- зазвича́й (zazvyčáj)most of the time
Urdu عام طور پر
- عام طور پر (āmm taur par)most of the time
Welsh fel arfer
- fel arfermost of the time
Cite this entry
usually. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/usually
“usually.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/usually. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “usually,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/usually.
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