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usually

adverbcommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈju.ʒu.(ə.)li//
  • United States//ˈju.ʒə.li//
  • Canada//ˈjuːʒʊəli//
  • Canada//ˈjuːʒli//
  • Canada//ˈjuːʒəli//

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

adverb

  1. 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,[…].

  2. 2

    Under normal conditions.

Etymology

From Middle English usualli, equivalent to usual + -ly. Broadly displaced native Old English ġewunelīċe (from which English wontly).

Forms

comparative
more usually
superlative
most usually
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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).