ordinarily
- adverb
- /ˈɔrdəˌnɛrɪli/
- Ordinarily, I take the bus to work, but today I decided to walk instead.
- ordinarily reside
- ordinarily hidden
- ordinarily use
And so when other people would ordinarily get the signal, they don't get the signal.
- And so when other people would ordinarily get the signal, they don't get the signal.
- We are placing more focus on proprioception than we do ordinarily.
- So I did the sort of typical thing, which is send it in a slightly smaller font than I ordinarily would have done.
- So, you know, ordinarily I focus on diet, lifestyle because that's most important.
- And they stagger into the kitchen and ordinarily they'd make their cup of coffee, but they're in a pseudo sleep state.
- A privation is where there is a lack of what ordinarily or or ought to be there.
- I mean, at that point, you know, it's it's hard to see the difference between that and just what people would ordinarily refer to as a world with miracles.
Examples
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The fair brings out all the people who you don't ordinarily cross paths with.
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Because the truth is, limits are ordinarily rather boring.
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In the first place, people in New York ordinarily do their shopping on foot rather than in cars.
Fiction book (1995) -
Even basic training tired him less than what he would ordinarily have done at that time of year.
Fiction book (1992) -
And the interesting thing is that ordinarily nobody in the shop would ever bother to correct him.
Fiction book (1991) -
Advertisements are not ordinarily intended or understood as offers to sell.
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By contrast, what data from the past are ordinarily available to the anthropologist?
Academic text (1999) -
When you file your taxes, you ordinarily file as a single person or married filing jointly, or you file as married filing separately.
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Ordinarily, that would have started a 10-minute row.
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Real estate appraisers are ordinarily interested in the cash flow stream associated with the properties they appraise.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
Most of the time
Usually or in most cases
In the usual way that people expect
In the usual way for a person, thing, or group
In the normal way people expect in that situation
As expected, without surprise
In most cases
It is the usual amount when you look at all cases together
In a regular way without much thought
Happens most of the time
Usually in most cases
In the usual way people do because of tradition
In the usual or accepted way
Antonyms
How Often
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ordinarily comes from the Latin word ordo meaning 'order' and the ending -ly meaning 'in a way'. Think 'in order'—when things are in order they are regular or usual, so ordinarily means 'usually' or under normal conditions.