usual

usual
    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}]
    

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.
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         Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and
         frequent in their times.                 --Hooker.
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         We can make friends of these usual enemies. --Baxter.
   [1913 Webster] -- {U"su*al*ly}, adv. -- {U"su*al*ness}, n.
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133 Moby Thesaurus words for "usual":
      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