usual

/ˈjuʒ(əw)əl/

/ˈjuʒuəl/

If a customer at a restaurant orders their usual, it means they're ordering the same thing they always get — nothing new, unexpected, or out of the ordinary.

How's this? The word usual describes things that happen regularly or follow a familiar pattern. If you take the same route to school every day, that’s your usual way there. Usual can also apply to habits. For example, if you check the mail at the same time every day, then you have a usual time for checking the mail. Anything that is typical, regularly occurring, or expected can be described as usual.

Definitions of usual

1. adjective

   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”

   synonyms:

   common

   having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual

   accustomed, customary, habitual, wonted

   commonly used or practiced; usual

   chronic, inveterate

   habitual

   regular

   in accord with regular practice or procedure

   antonyms:

   unusual

   not usual or common or ordinary

   uncommon

   not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind

   different

   differing from all others; not ordinary

   extraordinary

   (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials

   odd

   not easily explained

   out-of-the-way

   out of the ordinary

   peculiar

   markedly different from the usual

   unaccustomed

   not customary or usual

   unique

   highly unusual or rare but not the single instance
2. adjective

   commonly encountered
   “the usual greeting”

   synonyms: common

   familiar

   within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange