usual

English

Etymology

From French usuel, from Latin usualis (“for use, fit for use, also of common use, customary, common, ordinary, usual”), from usus (“use, habit, custom”), from past participle stem of uti (“to use”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈjuːʒuəl/, /ˈjuːʒəl/

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• Hyphenation: u‧su‧al

Adjective

usual (comparative more usual, superlative most usual)

1. most commonly occurring

   The preference of a boy to a girl is a usual occurrence in some parts of China.

   It is becoming more usual these days to rear children as bilingual.

Synonyms

• common, wonted, normal, standard, regular, ordinary, plain, simple

Antonyms

• unusual

Derived terms

• usualness
• usually
• unusual
• as usual

Related terms

• usuality

Translations

most commonly occurring

• Arabic: عادي (ar) (3aadiy)
• Armenian: սովորական (hy) (sovorakan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通常 (cmn) (tōngcháng)

• Czech: obvyklý (cs) m
• Dutch: gewoon (nl)
• Finnish: tavallinen (fi)
• French: habituel (fr)/habituelle (fr)
• Galician: usual (gl)
• Georgian: ჩვეულებრივი (ka) (č’veulebrivi)
• German: gewöhnlich (de)
• Hungarian: szokásos (hu), rendesen (hu)
• Irish: iondúil (ga)
• Italian: solito (it), usuale (it), consueto (it)
• Japanese: 通常 (ja) (つうじょう, tsūjō), いつもの (ja) (itsumo-no)

• Korean: 보통의 (ko) (botong-ui)
• Macedonian: вообичаен (mk) (voobíčaen) m, обичен (mk) (óbičen) m
• Norwegian: vanlig (no)
• Polish: zwykły (pl) m
• Portuguese: usual (pt)
• Romanian: uzual (ro) m and n, obișnuit (ro) m and n
• Russian: обыкновенный (ru) (obyknovénnyj), обычный (ru) (obýčnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: уобѝча̄јен (sh)

  Roman: uobìčājen (sh)

• Spanish: usual (es)
• Swedish: vanlig (sv)
• Thai: ธรรมดา (th), เช่นเคย (th), สามัญ (th)
• Vietnamese: bình thường (vi)

External links

• usual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• usual in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: goes · youth · sudden · #723: usual · entirely · system · sister

Anagrams

• luaus

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Galician

Adjective

usual m and f (plural usuais)

1. usual, regular, normal

Related terms

• usualmente

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Spanish

Adjective

usual m and f (plural usuales)

1. usual

Derived terms

• poco usual
• usualmente