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customary
adjective as in usual, established
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- according to Hoyle
- accustomed
- acknowledged
- by the numbers
- chronic
- common
- confirmed
- conventional
- established
- everyday
- familiar
- fashionable
- frequent
- general
- habitual
- household
- in a rut
- in the groove
- normal
- ordinary
- orthodox
- playing it safe
- popular
- prescriptive
- recognized
- regular
- regulation
- routine
- same old
- sop
- standard
- standard operating procedure
- stipulated
- understood
- universal
- wonted
Example Sentences
Set around the hospital’s emergency room, which keeps the narrative compact and busy and requires fewer sets, it comes with the customary variety pack of characters.
“Customary, yes, mandatory, no. As long as you are standing with no hat on, that is respect to the flag and the anthem.”
Both have tried to sound confident of victory in the last week or so, which is customary at this stage of the game.
While it’s not surprising that Harris visited the most hotly contested battlegrounds of the campaign in its home stretch, she departed from her customary rally-style events.
In his published introduction to the play in “Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater,” Foreman notes that, when he directed the Wooster Group actors in “Symphony of Rats,” he was aiming for a more “subdued, internalized performance style” than was customary for the troupe.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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