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- [roo-teen]
- /ruˈtin/
- /ruːˈtiːn.li/
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- [roo-teen]
- /ruˈtin/
Definitions of routinely word
- noun routinely a customary or regular course of procedure. 1
- noun routinely commonplace tasks, chores, or duties as must be done regularly or at specified intervals; typical or everyday activity: the routine of an office. 1
- noun routinely regular, unvarying, habitual, unimaginative, or rote procedure. 1
- noun routinely an unvarying and constantly repeated formula, as of speech or action; convenient or predictable response: Don't give me that brotherly-love routine! 1
- noun routinely Computers. a complete set of coded instructions directing a computer to perform a series of operations. a series of operations performed by the computer. 1
- noun routinely an individual act, performance, or part of a performance, as a song or dance, given regularly by an entertainer: a comic routine; a dance routine. 1
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Origin of routinely
First appearance:
before 1670 One of the 47% oldest English words
1670-80; < French, derivative of route route
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Routinely
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preposition
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routinely popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
routinely usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for routinely
adv routinely
- as a matter of course — If you do something as a matter of course, you do it as part of your normal work or way of life.
- as a rule — If you say that something happens as a rule, you mean that it usually happens.
- as usual — You use as usual to indicate that you are describing something that normally happens or that is normally the case.
- automatically — without volition or from force of habit; mechanically: Whenever I hear that song, I automatically think of my dad.
- by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
adverb routinely
- characteristically — Also, characteristical. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
- drearily — causing sadness or gloom.
- habitually — of the nature of a habit; fixed by or resulting from habit: habitual courtesy.
- mechanically — having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
- mechanistically — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
Antonyms for routinely
adv routinely
- eerily — uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird: an eerie midnight howl.
Top questions with routinely
- what type of school might routinely offer hands on training?
- which rehearsal is routinely performed by a subordinate leader?
- in what wavelength range was interferometry first routinely used?
- what does routinely mean?
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