USUALLY

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does usually mean? 

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

1. under normal conditions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• USUALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Under normal conditions

Synonyms:

commonly; normally; ordinarily; unremarkably; usually

Context example:

usually she was late

Pertainym:

usual (occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure)

 Context examples 

“People usually eat food in a pattern. A chocolate lover would eat chocolate with something else,” Djoussé explains.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I replied, as I usually did whenever I had a chance, that nobody had ever loved anybody else as I loved Dora.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I feared to wake her mother, who has been more than usually ill lately, so threw on some clothes and got ready to look for her.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Usually I will not see even my subjects, and so they believe I am something terrible.

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

It is usually caused by vitamin B12 or folic acid deficiency.

(Megaloblastic Anemia, NCI Thesaurus)

Usually this occurred at night, so as to avoid interference from the mounted police of the Territory.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

During the time necessary for preparation, Laurie bore himself as young gentleman usually do in such cases.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Even at his worst I can usually control him.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Symptoms usually appear 2 to 21 days after exposure.

(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)

It usually affects just one ear.

(Meniere's Disease, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)