Etimology
From Middle English usualli, equivalent to usual + -ly. Displaced native Old English ġewunelīċe.
adverb
usually (comparative more usually, superlative most usually)
Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.
Under normal conditions.
Examples
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, […].
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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