'Usual' definitions:
Definition of 'usual'
From: WordNet
adjective
Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime" [ant: unusual]
adjective
Commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting" [syn: common, usual]
Definition of 'Usual'
From: GCIDE
- Usual \U"su*al\, a. [L. usualis, from usus use: cf. F. usuel. See Use, n.] Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common. [1913 Webster]
- Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- We can make friends of these usual enemies. --Baxter. [1913 Webster] -- {U"su*al*ly}, adv. -- {U"su*al*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'usual'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accepted,
- accustomed,
- arranged,
- average,
- banal,
- besetting,
- bourgeois,
- businesslike,
- central,
- characteristic,
- chronic,
- common,
- commonplace,
- conformable,
- consuetudinary,
- conventional,
- current,
- customary,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- dominant,
- epidemic,
- established,
- everyday,
- exemplary,
- expected,
- familiar,
- formal,
- frequent,
- frequentative,
- garden,
- garden variety,
- garden-variety,
- generally accepted,
- habitual,
- hackneyed,
- harmonious,
- household,
- in hand,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- many,
- many times,
- mean,
- medial,
- median,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- methodical,
- middle-class,
- middle-of-the-road,
- middling,
- moderate,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- no great shakes,
- normal,
- normative,
- not rare,
- obtaining,
- of common occurrence,
- oft-repeated,
- oftentime,
- old,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- ordinary,
- pandemic,
- plastic,
- popular,
- predictable,
- predominant,
- predominating,
- prescribed,
- prescriptive,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- prosaic,
- quintessential,
- rampant,
- realistic,
- received,
- recurrent,
- regnant,
- regular,
- regulation,
- reigning,
- rife,
- routine,
- ruling,
- run-of-mine,
- run-of-the-mill,
- running,
- same,
- sample,
- set,
- standard,
- steady,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- suburban,
- symmetrical,
- systematic,
- the common,
- the commonplace,
- the normal,
- the ordinary,
- the usual,
- thick-coming,
- time-honored,
- traditional,
- trite,
- true to form,
- true to type,
- typal,
- typic,
- typical,
- unexceptional,
- uniform,
- unimaginative,
- universal,
- unnoteworthy,
- unoriginal,
- unremarkable,
- unspectacular,
- vernacular,
- well-known,
- well-ordered,
- well-regulated,
- widespread,
- wonted,
- workaday,
- worn out