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Usually vs Eventually - What's the difference?

usually | eventually |

As adverbs the difference between usually and eventually

is that usually is most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally while eventually is in the end.

usually

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.
  • :
  • *
  • *:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend?; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,.
  • Under normal conditions.
  • Synonyms

    * (most of the time) generally, mainly, commonly, regularly, mostly, on the whole, in the main, for the most part, by and large, most often, ordinarily, wontedly * (under normal conditions) customarily, habitually, wontly, normally, routinely, as a rule

    eventually

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In the end.
  • * 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage ,
  • It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
  • (mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.
  • Synonyms

    * at last * finally * yet * ultimately * in the end

    See also

    * frequently

    See also

    * sooner or later