Instead of taking a rest, he worked much harder than usual.
Source: tatoeba (19755)
Usual
//ˈju.ʒuəl//
Synonyms for "usual" (165 found)
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Closest matches (33)
Strong matches (50)
Related words (82)
oldorderedorderlypandemicperfunctoryplasticpopularpredictablepredominantpredominatingprescribedprescriptiveprevailingprevalentproperprosaicquintessentialrampantrealisticreceived
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Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
14 entriesdistinct from
1 entriesrelated to
10 entriessimilar
13 entriesTranslations
74 translations across 51 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- alledaags adj (most commonly occurring)
- gewoon adj (most commonly occurring)
Arabic
1 entries- عَادِيّ adj (most commonly occurring)
Armenian
1 entries- սովորական adj (most commonly occurring)
Asturian
1 entries- usual adj (most commonly occurring)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- adi adj (most commonly occurring)
Basque
2 entries- ohiko adj (most commonly occurring)
- ohizko adj (most commonly occurring)
Belarusian
1 entries- звыча́йны adj (most commonly occurring)
Bulgarian
2 entries- обикновен adj (most commonly occurring)
- обичаен adj (most commonly occurring)
Catalan
1 entries- usual adj (most commonly occurring)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 通常 adj (most commonly occurring)
Czech
1 entries- obvyklý adj (most commonly occurring)
Danish
2 entries- admindelig adj (most commonly occurring)
- sædvanlig adj (most commonly occurring)
Dutch
2 entries- alledaags adj (most commonly occurring)
- gewoon adj (most commonly occurring)
Esperanto
1 entries- kutima adj (most commonly occurring)
Estonian
1 entries- tavaline adj (most commonly occurring)
Finnish
1 entries- tavallinen adj (most commonly occurring)
French
2 entries- habituel adj (most commonly occurring)
- habituelle adj (most commonly occurring)
Galician
1 entries- usual adj (most commonly occurring)
Georgian
1 entries- ჩვეულებრივი adj (most commonly occurring)
German
2 entries- gewöhnlich adj (most commonly occurring)
- üblich adj (most commonly occurring)
Hanunoo
1 entries- adok adj (most commonly occurring)
Hungarian
2 entries- rendesen adj (most commonly occurring)
- szokásos adj (most commonly occurring)
Icelandic
1 entries- venjulegur adj (most commonly occurring)
Ido
1 entries- kustumala adj (most commonly occurring)
Irish
1 entries- iondúil adj (most commonly occurring)
Italian
4 entries- abituale adj (most commonly occurring)
- consueto adj (most commonly occurring)
- solito adj (most commonly occurring)
- usuale adj (most commonly occurring)
Japanese
2 entries- いつもの adj (most commonly occurring)
- 通常 adj (most commonly occurring)
Korean
1 entries- 보통의 adj (most commonly occurring)
Latin
3 entries- solitus adj (most commonly occurring)
- usualis adj (most commonly occurring)
- ūsitātus adj (most commonly occurring)
Latvian
1 entries- parasts adj (most commonly occurring)
Livonian
1 entries- irdzi adj (most commonly occurring)
Macedonian
2 entries- вообичаен adj (most commonly occurring)
- обичен adj (most commonly occurring)
Marathi
1 entries- नेहमीचे adj (most commonly occurring)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- sedvanlig adj (most commonly occurring)
- vanlig adj (most commonly occurring)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sedvanleg adj (most commonly occurring)
Occitan
1 entries- usual adj (most commonly occurring)
Old English
1 entries- ġewunelīċ adj (most commonly occurring)
Polish
1 entries- zwykły adj (most commonly occurring)
Portuguese
1 entries- usual adj (most commonly occurring)
Romanian
2 entries- obișnuit adj (most commonly occurring)
- uzual adj (most commonly occurring)
Russian
2 entries- обы́чный adj (most commonly occurring)
- обыкнове́нный adj (most commonly occurring)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- uobìčājen adj (most commonly occurring)
- уобѝча̄јен adj (most commonly occurring)
Slovak
1 entries- obvyklý adj (most commonly occurring)
Slovene
1 entries- običajen adj (most commonly occurring)
Spanish
3 entries- consabido adj (most commonly occurring)
- habitual adj (most commonly occurring)
- usual adj (most commonly occurring)
Swahili
1 entries- kawaida adj (most commonly occurring)
Swedish
1 entries- vanlig adj (most commonly occurring)
Thai
3 entries- ธรรมดา adj (most commonly occurring)
- สามัญ adj (most commonly occurring)
- เช่นเคย adj (most commonly occurring)
Turkish
1 entries- olağan adj (most commonly occurring)
Ukrainian
1 entries- звича́йний adj (most commonly occurring)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bình thường adj (most commonly occurring)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
The meeting ended earlier than usual.
Source: tatoeba (22503)
We walked more quickly than usual.
Source: tatoeba (23134)
In English, the usual sentence structure is Subject - Verb - Object/Complement.
Source: tatoeba (26309)
Showing 4 of 14 available sentences.
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