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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

U'SUAL, a. s as z. Customary; common; frequent; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events. Rainy weather is not usual in this climate.
Consultation with oracles was formerly a thing very usual.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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]
2: commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting" [syn: common, usual]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French usuel, from Late Latin usualis, from Latin usus use Date: 14th century 1. accordant with usage, custom, or habit ; normal 2. commonly or ordinarily used <followed his usual route> 3. found in ordinary practice or in the ordinary course of events ; ordinary • usually adverb • usualness noun Synonyms: usual, customary, habitual, wonted, accustomed mean familiar through frequent or regular repetition. usual stresses the absence of strangeness or unexpectedness <my usual order for lunch>. customary applies to what accords with the practices, conventions, or usages of an individual or community <the customary waiting period before the application is approved>. habitual suggests a practice settled or established by much repetition <a habitual morning routine>. wonted stresses habituation but usually applies to what is favored, sought, or purposefully cultivated <his wonted determination>. accustomed is less emphatic than wonted or habitual in suggesting fixed habit or invariable custom <accepted the compliment with her accustomed modesty>. II. noun Date: 1589 something usual

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 such as commonly occurs, or is observed or done; customary, habitual (the usual formalities; it is usual to tip them; forgot my keys as usual). 2 (prec. by the, my, etc.) colloq. a person's usual drink etc. Derivatives: usually adv. usualness n. Etymology: ME f. OF usual, usuel or LL usualis (as USE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. --Hooker. We can make friends of these usual enemies. --Baxter. -- U"su*al*ly, adv. -- U"su*al*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Usual is used to describe what happens or what is done most often in a particular situation. It is a neighborhood beset by all the usual inner-city problems... She's smiling her usual friendly smile... After lunch there was a little more clearing up to do than usual... It is usual to tip waiters, porters, guides and drivers. = normal ADJ: det ADJ, v-link ADJ, oft it v-link ADJ to-inf • Usual is also a noun. The stout barman in a bow tie presented himself to take their order. 'Good morning, sir. The usual?' N-SING: the N 2. You use as usual to indicate that you are describing something that normally happens or that is normally the case. As usual there will be the local and regional elections on June the twelfth... The front pages are, as usual, a mixture of domestic and foreign news. PHRASE: PHR with cl 3. If something happens as usual, it happens in the way that it normally does, especially when other things have changed. When somebody died everything went on as usual, as if it had never happened... PHRASE: PHR after v 4. business as usual: see business

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Customary, ordinary, common, familiar, regular, general, frequent, habitual, wonted, accustomed, prevailing, prevalent, every-day, normal.

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