Customary and New

Customary

Customary adjective - Accepted, used, or practiced by most people.

New and customary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "New" instead an adjective "Customary".

Nearby Words: custom, customarily

New

New adjective - Taking the place of one that came before.

Customary and new are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Customary" instead an adjective "New".

Nearby Words: newness, newly, newish

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Cool Guns / Assault Rifles He changed his name for two reasons: one, it's customary to adopt Hebrew names when moving to Israel, and two, they didn't want a name that similar to Kalashnikov's attached to their new rifle.
  • Happiness Is Mandatory Franz realized that an ongoing invasion instead of the customary celebration of a new member of the House Heterodyne lets him do his job "the fun way".
  • That bit is called Appearance, and it's been the customary "loading save/new game start" song since the very first Metroid game.
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New and Customary. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/customary/new
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New or Customary. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/customary/new.
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