usually

English

Etymology

From Middle English usualli, equivalent to usual +‎ -ly. Displaced native Old English ġewunelīċe.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːʒ(ʊə)li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːʒu(ə)li/, /ˈjuːʒəli/

• Audio (US):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːʒju(ə)li/

Adverb

usually (comparative more usually, superlative most usually)

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.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     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. Under normal conditions.

Synonyms

• (most of the time): generally, mainly, commonly, regularly, mostly, on the whole, in the main, for the most part, by and large, most often, ordinarily, wontedly; see also Thesaurus:usually
• (under normal conditions): customarily, habitually, wontly, normally, routinely, as a rule; see also Thesaurus:normally

Related terms

• use

Translations

most of the time

• Afrikaans: gewoonlik (af)
• Arabic: عَادَةً (ʕādatan)
• Armenian: սովորաբար (hy) (sovorabar)
• Azerbaijani: adətən (az), bir qayda olaraq
• Bashkir: ғәҙәттә (ğəźəttə)
• Bengali: সাধারণ ভাবে (śadharon bhabe)
• Breton: peurvuiañ (br), peurliesañ (br)
• Bulgarian: обикновено (bg) (obiknoveno)
• Catalan: normalment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 平時／平时 (ping⁴ si⁴)

  Mandarin: 通常 (zh) (tōngcháng)

• Crimean Tatar: esasen, adetince, çoqu
• Czech: obvykle (cs)
• Danish: som regel, sædvanligvis
• Dutch: meestal (nl), gewoonlijk (nl)
• Esperanto: kutime, komune
• Estonian: tavaliselt, harilikult
• Finnish: yleensä (fi), tavallisesti (fi), useimmiten (fi)
• French: généralement (fr), habituellement (fr), d’habitude (fr), normalement (fr), usuellement (fr)
• Galician: usualmente
• Georgian: ჩვეულებრივ (čveulebriv)
• German: gewöhnlich (de)
• Greek: συνήθως (el) (syníthos)
• Hebrew: בדרך כלל (he)
• Hindi: आम्म तौर पर (āmm taur par)
• Hungarian: általában (hu), rendszerint (hu)
• Ido: maxim-multa-kaze (io)
• Indonesian: biasanya (id)
• Irish: go hiondúil
• Italian: di solito (it), generalmente (it), solitamente (it)
• Japanese: 通常 (ja) (つうじょう, tsūjō), たいてい (ja) (大抵, taitei)
• Kapampangan: keraklan
• Latvian: parasti
• Lithuanian: paprastai
• Navajo: łeh
• Ngazidja Comorian: eaghâlaɓu
• Norman: de couteume (Guernsey)
• Norwegian: vanligvis
• Old English: ġewunelīċe
• Persian: معمولاً (fa) (ma'mulan)
• Plautdietsch: derchwajch
• Polish: zwykle (pl), zazwyczaj (pl)
• Portuguese: geralmente (pt)
• Romanian: de obicei, în general
• Russian: обы́чно (ru) (obýčno)
• Scottish Gaelic: mar as trice (present and future), mar bu trice (past and conditional)
• Serbo-Croatian: obično (sh) n
• Spanish: usualmente (es)
• Swahili: kwa kawaida (sw)
• Swedish: vanligtvis (sv)
• Telugu: మామూలుగా (māmūlugā), సాధారణంగా (sādhāraṇaṅgā)
• Turkish: genellikle (tr), genelde
• Ukrainian: зазвича́й (zazvyčáj)
• Urdu: عام طور پر (āmm taur par)
• Welsh: fel arfer
• Zazaki: degmesi

under normal conditions — see normally