USUAL

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does usual mean? 

• USUAL (adjective)
  The adjective USUAL has 2 senses:

1. occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure

2. commonly encountered

  Familiarity information: USUAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• USUAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure

Context example:

the child's usual bedtime

Similar:

accustomed; customary; habitual; wonted (commonly used or practiced; usual)

chronic; inveterate (habitual)

regular (in accord with regular practice or procedure)

Also:

common (having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual)

Attribute:

usualness (commonness by virtue of not being unusual)

Antonym:

unusual (not usual or common or ordinary)

Derivation:

usualness (commonness by virtue of not being unusual)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Commonly encountered

Synonyms:

common; usual

Context example:

the usual greeting

Similar:

familiar (within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange)

Derivation:

usualness (commonness by virtue of not being unusual)

 Context examples 

Dorothy and Toto and the Lion lay down to sleep, while the Woodman and the Scarecrow kept watch over them as usual.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

With this treatment, Mr. Woodhouse was soon composed enough for talking as usual.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Bath seems full, and everything as usual.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

If you write for a living—books, columns, or screenplays—you will be doing much more writing than usual.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"It has seemed shorter than usual, but so uncomfortable," said Meg.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Some studies had used both the IRIF (interventions to regulate intestinal microbiota) approach and treatment as usual.

(Anxiety May Be Alleviated by Changing Gut Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In Alzheimer’s disease, the brain’s usual DNA repair activity is impaired, leading to mitochondrial dysfunction, lower neuron production, and increased neuronal dysfunction and inflammation.

(Compound prevents neurological damage, shows cognitive benefits in mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, National Institutes of Health)

A question about whether an individual has or had digestive problems that interfered with their usual activities.

(Digestive Problems Interfere with Usual Activities, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about an individual's distress related to their emotional problems with loss of interest in usual activities.

(Distress over Emotional Problem with Loss of Interest in Usual Activities, NCI Thesaurus)

It includes the atypical ductal hyperplasia, papillary intraductal hyperplasia, intraductal myoepitheliosis, and ductal hyperplasia of the usual type.

(Ductal Breast Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)