different between usual vs run-of-the-mill
usual
English
Alternative forms
- (shortening, informal) (no fixed spelling) uzhe, uzh, yoozh
Etymology
From Middle English usual, from Old French usuel, from Latin ?su?lis (“for use, fit for use, also of common use, customary, common, ordinary, usual”), from ?sus (“use, habit, custom”), from the past participle stem of ?t? (“to use”). Displaced native Old English ?ewunel??.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ju????l/, /?ju???l/
- Hyphenation: u?su?al
Adjective
usual (comparative more usual, superlative most usual)
- Most commonly occurring; typical.
- The preference of a boy to a girl is a usual occurrence in some parts of China.
- It is becoming more usual these days to rear children as bilingual.
Synonyms
- wonted, normal, common, standard, regular, ordinary, plain, simple, typical
Antonyms
- unusual, abnormal, atypical
Derived terms
Related terms
- usuality
Translations
Noun
usual (uncountable)
- The typical state of something, or something that is typical.
- (colloquial) A specific good or service (e.g. a drink) that someone typically orders.
- I'll just have the usual.
Usage notes
Sometimes colloquially shortened to the first syllable (IPA(key): /ju??/), an overwhelmingly spoken-only slang word with no single widely accepted spelling (see uzhe).
Further reading
- usual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- usual in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- luaus
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin ?su?lis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
usual (epicene, plural usuales)
- common, typical, usual
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin ?su?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /u.zu?al/
Adjective
usual (masculine and feminine plural usuals)
- usual
- Antonym: inusual
Derived terms
- inusual
- usualment
Further reading
- “usual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “usual” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “usual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “usual” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Etymology
From Latin ?su?lis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
usual m or f (plural usuais)
- usual, regular, normal
Derived terms
- usualmente
Further reading
- “usual” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- usuel, usualle, usuale, usuell, usuall
Etymology
From Old French usuel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iu?ziu??a?l/, /iu?zu?a?l/, /?iu?ziu?al/, /?iu?zual/, /?iu?zu?l/
Adjective
usual
- customary, established
- usual, normal, regular
Descendants
- English: usual
- Scots: usual, uswal, eeswal
References
- “?su??l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
Piedmontese
Alternative forms
- üsual
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /y?z?al/
Adjective
usual
- usual
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin ?su?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /uzu?aw/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /u?zwa?/
Adjective
usual m or f (plural usuais, comparable)
- usual (most commonly occurring)
- Antonym: inusual
Derived terms
- inusual
- usualmente
Related terms
- usar
- uso
Further reading
- “usual” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin ?su?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /u?swal/, [u?swal]
- Hyphenation: u?sual
Adjective
usual (plural usuales)
- usual
- Antonym: inusual
Derived terms
- inusual
- usualmente
Further reading
- “usual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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run-of-the-mill
English
Alternative forms
- run of the mill
- run-o’-the-mill, run o’ the mill
Etymology
From 1922; from the fact that product produced by a mill should be uniform and like that of any other similar run.
Adjective
run-of-the-mill (comparative more run-of-the-mill, superlative most run-of-the-mill)
- (figuratively) Ordinary; not special.
- This isn’t your run-of-the-mill refrigerator; you’ll find the extra features well worth the price.
- 1971 November 30, Martin Lapidus, Class Notes: 62, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 72, page 26,
- The other had the most run-of-the-mill news which make some of my recent run-of-the-mill columns appear like the raciest escapist fare.
- 1989, Punch, page 55,
- For a deeper, less familiar philosophy, you have to listen to your more run-of-the-mill dossers, and they don't come more run-of-the-mill than Ratso.
- 1995, Alain Mérot, French Painting in the Seventeenth Century, page 42,
- In one side of the prestigious commissions, public and private, sacred and profane, which could make the name of an artist, there was a more run of the mill style of painting which already enjoyed a vast clientéle at all levels of society.
- 2001, Gabrielle Lord, Death Delights, 2002, unnumbered page,
- Or even more run-of-the-mill murders which usually turn out to be family or business affairs and where someone's usually heard something or, in the case of the more professional killings, someone wants to do a deal.
Antonyms
- (ordinary): cream of the crop
Translations
See also
- common-or-garden (standard)
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