English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnɔːmə.li/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnɔɹ.mə.li/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Adverb
[edit]normally (comparative more normally, superlative most normally)
- Under normal conditions or circumstances; usually; most of the time
- Normally, I eat breakfast at 6am, but today, I got up late and didn't eat until 9.
- 2021 January 13, Steven Poole, “'Insurrection': how an old word for an old thing was Trumped”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 20 January 2021:
- It comes from the Latin insurgo, meaning “to rise up within”: so insurrectionists are, etymologically, the same as “insurgents”, even if that is normally a word for those who do not meekly accept western military rule.
- 2025 April 24, Sammi Awami, “Tanzania bans South Africa and Malawi imports as trade row escalates”, in BBC[2], archived from the original on 26 April 2025:
- A normally bustling border crossing between Tanzania and Malawi was noticeably quieter than usual on Thursday as a result of an escalating regional trade row.
- In the expected or customary manner.
- Lisa ate normally, until she realised that she was late for choir, when she sped up.
- To a usual or customary extent or degree.
- He was abnormally agitated, she only normally so.
- 1984, Robert Charles Sproul, John Henry Gerstner, Arthur Lindsley, Classical Apologetics, →ISBN, page 178:
- An even more important reason is that our generation is not only normally ignorant but abnormally so. That is, we not only have scholars who do not know the history of the church's testimony, but we have those who tell it like it was not.
- (mathematics, statistics) In the manner of a variable with a Gaussian distribution.
Synonyms
[edit]- (most of the time): commonly, frequently, ordinarily; see also Thesaurus:usually
- (in the expected manner): customarily, habitually, routinely; see also Thesaurus:normally
- (to a usual degree): averagely
- (mathematics):
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[edit]Translations
[edit]under normal conditions or circumstances; usually; most of the time
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in the expected or customary manner
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