Definitions

as a matter of course

ADJECTIVE

dogmatic

Synonyms

STRONGEST

assertive categorical pragmatic reasoned

WEAK

a priori authoritarian authoritative axiomatic by fiat by natural law by nature canonical deducible deductive derivable doctrinaire doctrinal eternal excathedra formal imperative inevitable on faith oracular orthodox peremptory positive prophetic systematic theoretical unchangeable unerring unqualified

Antonyms

WEAK

ambiguous amenable doubtful doubting dubious equivocal flexible fluctuating indecisive manageable not positive obedient questioning skeptical submissive uncertain vacillating

ADVERB

customarily

Synonyms

STRONGEST

commonly consistently generally habitually normally routinely traditionally

WEAK

as usual conventionally frequently naturally regularly usually wontedly

Antonyms

WEAK

differently divergently occasionally rarely sometimes

ADVERB

necessarily

Synonyms

STRONGEST

automatically naturally no doubt undoubtedly unquestionably

WEAK

accordingly axiomatically beyond one's control by definition by its own nature cardinally come what may compulsorily consequently exigently from within fundamentally incontrovertibly indubitably ineluctably inescapably inexorably irresistibly of course of necessity perforce positively pressingly significantly unpreventably vitally willy-nilly without fail

Antonyms

STRONGEST

doubtfully questionably

WEAK

unnecessarily

Example Sentences

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“Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like,” Fred Rogers once said, “if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

It’s so rare because failure — by pitchers as well as batters — is expected as a matter of course.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2025

And that’s how the pardon power operated in early American history: Prosecutors and judges routinely recommended clemency in unjust cases, which presidents granted as a matter of course.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2024

"Maybe if they had tested the drugs as a matter of course, the warning bells about this drug could have been sounded sooner."

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2024

On Main Street, in stores, in factories and offices, in every sector, black and white mixed all day as a matter of course.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

as a matter of course

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