customarily
customarily adverb: in the customary manner; as is custom.
Adverb
customarily (comparative more customarily, superlative most customarily)
- In the customary manner; as is custom
- Synonyms:
- habitually
- Under normal circumstances, normally.
- On a day in the summer which began our sixth year Josella and I went down to the coast together, traveling there in the half-tracked vehicle that I customarily used now that the roads were growing so bad.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 241
- Among the most important differences is the availability in some instances of what Sokal and Camin (1965) have called chronistic information, which refers to the times of events in phylogeny, such as times of cladogenesis, chronological sequences of populations, and geologic ranges of taxa....1970, Ellis Leon Yochelson, Proceedings of the North American Paleontological Convention, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, September 5-7, 1969
- Synonyms:
- usually
customarily meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Sanskrit
customarily in Hindi
- customarily, as per usual
- प्रथानुसार prathānusār
customarily in Tamil
- பெரும்பாலும்
customarily in Malayalam
- traditionally, usually, normally
- കീഴ്നടപ്പനുസരിച്ച്, മാമൂൽപ്രകാരം, സാധാരണ, പൊതുവേ, പരക്കെ, ആകപ്പാടെ
customarily in Sanskrit
- customarily, per tradition or doctrine
- किल kíla
More languagesFewer languages
- customarily in Arabic
- عَادَةً ʕādatan
Examples of customarily in a sentence
- American comeback narratives are — customarily — uplifting stories that root for the underdog.
- Of the twenty patrician fetials, only four were customarily chosen to serve in an embassy.
- Unconventionally, he recommends a Loire red with fresh oysters, a dish the French customarily consume with muscadet, a piercing Loire white.
Synonyms of customarily
- habitually
- usually
- routinely
- wontly
- typically
- ordinarily
- as a matter of course
- normally
- regularly
- as a rule
Forms of customarily
| comparative | more customarily |
|---|---|
| superlative | most customarily |
Origin of customarily
From customary + -ly.
Questions about customarily
- What does customarily mean?
- Customarily means in the customary manner; as is custom.
- What is customarily in Hindi?
- Customarily in Hindi is प्रथानुसार (prathānusār). See Customarily meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is customarily?
- Customarily is an adverb.
Words near customarily in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: customarily (page history and authors); प्रथानुसार (Hindi) (page history and authors); customarily (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); customarily (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); किल (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-customarily.wav.
Cite this entry: “customarily.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/customarily. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
