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usual
[ yoo-zhoo-uhl, yoozh-wuhl ]
adjective
- habitual or customary:
her usual skill.
Synonyms: accustomed
- commonly met with or observed in experience; ordinary:
the usual January weather.
Synonyms: regular, familiar, prevalent, prevailing, general
- commonplace; everyday:
He says the usual things.
Synonyms: predictable
noun
- something that is usual:
He could expect only the usual.
usual
/ ˈjuːʒʊəl /
adjective
- of the most normal, frequent, or regular type; customary
that's the usual sort of application to send
noun
- ordinary or commonplace events (esp in the phrase out of the usual )
- the usual informal.the habitual or usual drink, meal, etc
Derived Forms
- ˈusualness, noun
Other Words From
- usu·al·ly adverb
- usu·al·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of usual1
Idioms and Phrases
- as usual, in the customary or usual manner:
As usual, he forgot my birthday.
More idioms and phrases containing usual
see as usual ; business as usual .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
With so many clubs in the playoff hunt at the deadline, there are a lot more teams than usual who can at least make the case for a big splash ahead of the stretch run.
Taken together, it’s all looking fairly dull on this side of the Atlantic—a business-as-usual vibe, even.
They’re guaranteeing that local businesses hoping to expand will be forced to pay tolls to access Amazon’s customer base, above and beyond the usual fees Amazon extracts from users of its platform.
Rather than doing seven shows in a season, there will do three or four, and they’ll be extended to make more money because distanced audiences will be a third of their usual size.
Meanwhile, the world is expecting even less, far less, from value than usual.
The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.
Larson, as usual, instills gravitas and agency in an otherwise underwritten character.
I know that one day in the near (ish) future, we will return to our usual hikes and bike rides.
But, under the hawkish eye of the media and through a heavily active social media presence, she carried on as usual.
The broader issue is also playing out without the usual toxicity.
We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
As usual the dinner was recherché, for the Pandemonium chef enjoyed a world-wide reputation.
This habit and the fact that she cares more for color than for drawing are the usual criticisms of her pictures.
The lady in black, creeping behind them, looked a trifle paler and more jaded than usual.
Toward the close of it were the usual number of toasts in honour of Liszt, to which he responded in rather a bored sort of way.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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