Usual

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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.

Adj.	1.	usual - 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" Antonyms: unusual - not usual or common or ordinary; "a scene of unusual beauty"; "a man of unusual ability"; "cruel and unusual punishment"; "an unusual meteorite"
	2.	usual - commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting" Synonyms: common

accepted, arranged, average, banal, besetting, bourgeois, businesslike, central, characteristic, chronic, commonplace, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, current, distinctive, distinguishing, dominant, epidemic, established, exemplary, expected, formal, frequent, frequentative, garden, garden variety, garden-variety, generally accepted, 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, normative, not rare, obtaining, of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, old, ordered, orderly, 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

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