usually
Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.
Adverb
- 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...
- Under normal conditions.
Origin
From Middle English usualli, equivalent to usual + -ly. Broadly displaced native Old English ġewunelīċe (from which English wontly).
Forms
Synonyms
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