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adverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə.li//
  • United Kingdom//ˈɹɛɡ.jə.li//
  • United States//ˈɹɛɡ.jə.lɚ.li//

With constant frequency or pattern.

adverb

  1. 1

    With constant frequency or pattern.

    We regularly buy lottery tickets from the corner store.

    Wax models of the pudenda of both sexes were regularly placed before the altar.

    Promontory's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives that nose up to each other just as the originals did.

  2. 2

    normally; ordinarily.

    Noemi decided to dress regularly for the party, instead of going for an outrageous outfit.

    The period of life at which initiation takes place is regularly puberty.

Etymology

Etymology tree English regular Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English regularly From regular + -ly.

Forms

comparative
more regularly
superlative
most regularly
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).