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 of usually

• normally
• typically

Examples of usually in a Sentence

we usually go out to eat on Fridays

Recent Examples on the Web

New telescopes in the $50 range are usually tiny 50- to 70-millimeter refractors that struggle with faint objects. — Damian Peach, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026

In fact, kids with school avoidance are usually highly intelligent, Demsky said. — Kara Alaimo, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026

While chronic spontaneous urticaria usually has no identifiable cause, people can have triggers. — Kristen Willard, Glamour, 3 Aug. 2026

The symptoms usually start about one week following infection, and the illness is treatable with antibiotics, otherwise lasting from a few days to a month or longer, officials say. — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above