commonly

English

Alternative forms

• commonlie (obsolete)

Etymology

From common +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmənli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmənli/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: com‧mon‧ly

Adverb

commonly (comparative more commonly, superlative most commonly)

1. As a rule; frequently; usually.
   • 2024 March 21, Kristen Rogers, “If antidepressants are killing your sex life, here’s what you can do”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The class of antidepressants most commonly associated with sexual dysfunction is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which treat depression by ultimately increasing levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain.

2. (obsolete) In common; familiarly.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, chapter LVI, in The Faerie Queene, Book I, lines 497–501:

     As he thereon stood gazing, he might see / The blessed Angels to and fro descend / From highest heaven in gladsome companee, / And with great joy into that Citie wend, / As commonly as friend does with his frend.

Synonyms

• (as a rule): commonly, most of the time; see also Thesaurus:usually
• (familiarly): affinitatively, friendly, homly, intimately, nearly

Translations

as a rule; usually

• Arabic: غالبا, عَادَةً (ʕādatan), عُمُومًا (ʕumūman)
• Armenian: սովորաբար (hy) (sovorabar)
• Bashkir: ғәҙәттә (ğəźəttə)
• Bulgarian: обичайно (bg) (običajno)
• Catalan: comunament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 通常 (tung¹ soeng⁴), 普遍 (pou² pin³)

  Mandarin: 通常 (zh) (tōng cháng)

• Czech: běžně (cs)
• Esperanto: kutime, komune
• Finnish: usein (fi), yleisesti (fi)
• French: fréquemment (fr)
• Galician: comunmente (gl)
• Georgian: ხშირად (xširad), ჩვეულებრივ (čveulebriv), როგორც წესი (rogorc c̣esi)
• German: gewöhnlich (de)
• Italian: comunemente (it), frequentemente (it), spesso (it), normalmente (it), usualmente (it)
• Marathi: सर्वसाधारणपणे (sarvasādhārṇapṇe), सामान्यपणे (sāmānyapṇe), सामान्यतः (sāmānyataḥ)
• Norman: commeunement
• Polish: powszechnie (pl), zwykle (pl)
• Portuguese: comumente (pt)
• Russian: обы́чно (ru) (obýčno), обыкнове́нно (ru) (obyknovénno)
• Scots: commonly
• Spanish: comúnmente (es)
• Swedish: vanligen (sv)
• Turkish: sık sık (tr), sıkça (tr)

Scots

Adverb

commonly (comparative mair commonly, superlative maist commonly)

1. Alternative form of commounly