ORDINARILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ordinarily mean? 

• ORDINARILY (adverb)
  The adverb ORDINARILY has 1 sense:

1. under normal conditions

  Familiarity information: ORDINARILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDINARILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Under normal conditions

Synonyms:

commonly; normally; ordinarily; unremarkably; usually

Context example:

usually she was late

Pertainym:

ordinary (not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree)

 Context examples 

These cells also lost barrier functions that ordinarily move food along the digestive tract.

(Eosinophilic esophagitis may be due to missing protein, National Institutes of Health)

The researchers then recorded changes in the neurons’ electrical and chemical activity, which proved similar to what is ordinarily observed in animal studies of traumatic brain injury.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

Ordinarily I would not have come without special reason, but just at present I am so interested in him that I would gladly make an effort.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A semisolid emulsion of either the oil-in-water or the water-in-oil type, ordinarily intended for topical use.

(Cream Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The branches of a Holliday junction are ordinarily resolved by cleavage of two of the DNA strands.

(Holliday Junction, NCI Thesaurus)

Once, in the pursuit of a rabbit, which she ordinarily would have caught with ease, she gave over and lay down and rested.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A melanin-forming tumor that arose spontaneously in a non-inbred mouse, and that is transplantable to mice of many strains but does not ordinarily metastasize.

(Harding-Passey Malignant Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours, equal to 86 400 seconds.

(Day, NCI Thesaurus)

Whatever occurred in the instant present, Martin's mind immediately presented associated antithesis or similitude which ordinarily expressed themselves to him in vision.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was ordinarily gone from three to four days, though it was nothing unusual for him to stay away a week at a time on the ice-field.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)