usually

adverb

usu·​al·​ly ˈyü-zhə-wə-lē 

-zhə-lē;

ˈyüzh-wə-lē,

ˈyüzh-lē

: according to the usual or ordinary course of things : most often : as a rule : customarily, ordinarily

a trip that usually takes an hour

a time of year when the weather is usually hot

On weekdays, I usually biked alone around San Francisco.

—Oliver Sacks

To establish a new epoch, geologists usually have to find clear evidence in the rock record of a massive, planet-altering shift.

—Gayathri Vaidyanathan

Celebrity outbursts are usually so outrageous that the average person can't really relate to them.

—Kyra Kyles

These chemicals usually do not kill the insects: a plant does not care whether predators die; it just wants them to go away and not come back.

—Mark P. Mattson

Synonyms

• normally
• typically

Examples of usually in a Sentence

we usually go out to eat on Fridays

Recent Examples on the Web

But Bronze is usually in the ice bath by then. —Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025

Thanks to modern anesthesia and advances in dental care, root canals are usually no more uncomfortable than having a cavity filled. —Daryl Austin, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025

Bears usually weigh somewhere between 200 to 600 pounds, according to National Geographic. —Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 13 Sep. 2025

While greenwashing is usually seen as the domain of private companies, Cal Fire is a public agency also deeply engaged in the practice. —John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above