regularly
With constant frequency or pattern.
Adverb
- 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. - 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 228:
- 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. - 2025 November 12,...
- 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. - 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 358:
Origin
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.