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Definition: Fairly |
FairlyAdverb1. To a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason". 2. In a fair evenhanded manner; "deal fairly with one another". 3. In conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fairly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: FairlySynonyms: clean (adv), evenhandedly (adv), fair (adv), middling (adv), moderately (adv), passably (adv), reasonably (adv), somewhat (adv), within reason (adv), without favoring one party (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: unfairly (adv), unreasonably (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intrinsicality | Adverb: intrinsically; Adjective: at bottom, in the main, in effect, practically, virtually, substantially, au fond; fairly. |
Mediocrity | Verb: jog on; go fairly, go quietly, go peaceably, go tolerably, go respectably, get on fairly, get on quietly, get on peaceably, get on tolerably, get on respectably. |
Nomenclature | Adjective: named; Verb: hight, ycleped, known as; what one may well, call fairly, call properly, call fitly. |
Probity | Verb: be honorable; Adjective: deal honorably, deal squarely, deal impartially, deal fairly; speak the truth; (veracity); draw a straight furrow; tell the truth and shame the Devil, vitam impendere vero; show a proper spirit, make a point of; do one's duty; (virtue). |
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Screenplays | I I I'm fairly alarmed here (Jurassic Park; writing credit: Michael Crichton) I got people stuck in places they haven't even considered how to get out of yet. You don't think I can come up with something good? Can you envision some fairly unattractive alternatives (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz) Sure, I'm not funny anymore. There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) We're smart women, we're fairly attractive (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes) | |
Lyrics | I'm fairly ripped now (Ugly; performing artist: Bubba Sparxxx) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Fairly OddParents Movie (2003) Fairly Secret Army (1984) | |
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Most galaxies form new stars at a fairly slow rate, but members of a rare class known as ... Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Army surveyor with odometer carriage Survey of public lands Odometer worked fairly well on flat ground. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | |
![]() | This fast growing climber is a fairly common tender perennial species that produces two inch, pinkish blue flowers in mid to late Summer. They provide quick covers for lattice, trellis, arbor and chain-link fence, and are a favorite food source for butter. Credit: Dot Paul. | ![]() | A Well-fed vicar tired with thinking,/ And fairly overcome by drinking;... / [John Collier]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California. Organized August 1934. Now has seventy-six active members and is fairly successful. Have applied to the Resettlement Administration for a loan. Have farm of one hundred eighty acres, and supply vegetables to mem. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Texas Bluebonnets" by B0at B0at Commentary: "Fairly evenly placed, though not very thick or large, bluebonnets." | "A Display of Nationalism." by Justin Baker Commentary: "Shot of anti-war protestors at a rally in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in Spring 2003. Shot on Fuji Velvia Transparency film. Actually shot this while I was out on a video shoot, so if you can imagine holding a DVCPRO cam, and snapping in between shots... It" |
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| Author | Quotation |
Doc Sane | Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it. |
George Eliot | Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it. |
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John Locke | 1690 | But since gold and silver, being little useful to the life of man in proportion to food, raiment, and carriage, has its value only from the consent of men, whereof labour yet makes, in great part, the measure, it is plain, that men have agreed to a disproportionate and unequal possession of the earth, they having, by a tacit and voluntary consent, found out, a way how a man may fairly possess more land than he himself can use the product of, by receiving in exchange for the overplus gold and silver, which may be hoarded up without injury to any one; these metals not spoiling or decaying in the hands of the possessor. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Nothing illustrates a fallacy so well as an extreme case, which fairly comes under it. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Between thee and me the scale hangs fairly balanced |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | But how long fairly shall her sweet life last |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The proposition and demonstration were fairly written on a thin wafer, with ink composed of a cephalic tincture |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Moreover, I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution |
Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These are all fairly common. (references) | |
Right now, the doggie seems to be in fairly good shape. (references) | ||
These tumors are also fairly common in the general population. (references) | ||
Business | The judge's ruling was based on fairly narrow legal points. (references) | |
Firms such as Care mark, Watakyu are fairly inactive at present. (references) | ||
Thus, parties to leasing transactions use insurance fairly often to minimize their risks. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Kenya | Internet access was limited only by economic and infrastructural factors, and was fairly widespread in urban areas. (references) |
Eritrea | Nonetheless, criticism tended to be limited and fairly mild, and the media practiced a great deal of self-censorship. (references) | |
Dominican Republic | They approach persons who look like Haitians, including persons who have very dark complexions and fairly poor clothing. (references) | |
Economic History | Ghana | Labor-management relations are fairly good. (references) |
Bahrain | Bahrain has a fairly well developed road network. (references) | |
Ukraine | The market for pesticides in Ukraine is fairly large. (references) | |
Human Rights | Moldova | Detentions of several months were fairly frequent. (references) |
Fiji | Rules governing detention are designed to ensure that suspects are questioned fairly. (references) | |
Iceland | With limited exceptions, trials are public and conducted fairly, with no official intimidation. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Cameroon | Local Pygmies along the proposed path of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline continue to complain that they have not been compensated fairly for their land like their Bantu neighbors. (references) |
Minorities | Czech Republic | A small but persistent and fairly well-organized extreme rightwing movement with anti-Semitic views exists in the country. (references) |
Kenya | In private business and in the public sector, members of virtually all ethnic groups commonly discriminated in favor of other members of the same group when able to do so. Neighborhoods in large cities tended to be segregated ethnically, although interethnic marriage has become fairly common in urban areas. (references) | |
Political Economy | Grenada | The elections were conducted openly and fairly and were free of violence. (references) |
INDONESIA | Employer violations of legal requirements are fairly common and often result in strikes and employee protests. (references) | |
MOROCCO | It is enforced fairly well throughout the industrialized, unionized sectors where most workers earn more than the minimum wage. (references) | |
Political Rights | Peru | There were more than 20,000 complaints nationwide, a number that is fairly consistent with previous elections in the country. (references) |
Algeria | Until those allegations surfaced, the campaign had been conducted fairly, with all candidates widely covered in both state-owned and private media. (references) | |
Morocco | Press reports indicate that the August 2000 by-elections overall proceeded more fairly than in 1997, despite allegations that two of the races involved some cases of vote-buying. (references) | |
Trade | Nigeria | Nigeria operates a fairly open banking system. (references) |
Sweden | Large-scale parallel imports are a fairly recent phenomenon in Sweden. (references) | |
Eritrea | Following the float of the Nakfa in May 1998, the GSE maintained a fairly open exchange system. (references) | |
Travel | Sri Lanka | Colombo is served by a fairly modern international airport. (references) |
Azerbaijan | International calls can be easily dialed but are fairly expensive. (references) | |
Mexico | Most parts of the country have fairly well defined wet and dry seasons. (references) | |
Women | South Africa | Prostitution is illegal, but it is widespread and practiced fairly openly. (references) |
Singapore | The press gives fairly prominent coverage to instances of abuse or violence against women. (references) | |
Monaco | Women are represented fairly well in the professions; however, they are represented less well in business. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Mexico | Although few strikes actually occur, informal stoppages are fairly common, but uncounted in statistics, and seldom last long enough to be recognized or ruled out of order. (references) |
Honduras | The Constitution and the Labor Code stipulate that all labor must be paid fairly; however, the Ministry of Labor lacks the personnel and other resources for effective enforcement. (references) | |
Panama | The Ministry of Labor is responsible for enforcing health and safety standards and generally does so. The standards are fairly broad and generally emphasize safety over long-term health hazards, according to organized labor sources. (references) | |
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Gerald Ford | In a subjective sense. You know, I had a fairly good record in athletics at the University of Michigan. |
Robert Novak | Crown Prince Abdullah, at his meeting with the president, presented a fairly detailed eight-point plan for peace between the Palestinians and Israel. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | At least until the good offices of kindness and education have been fairly tried the contrary conclusion can not be plausibly urged. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Certain tendencies are, however, fairly clear and recognition of them should serve as background for the consideration of next year's Federal Program. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | One example shines forth of a people uniting to produce abundance and to share the good life fairly and with freedom. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We are moving steadily toward a regulatory system that provides needed protections fairly, predictably, and at minimum cost. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Competitiveness also means giving our farmers a shot at participating fairly and fully in a changing world market. |
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| "Fairly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fairly" is used about 6,695 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 6,695 | 1,442 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "fairly" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Fairly | Last name | 100 | 85,318 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "fairly": be fairly good ♦ call fairly ♦ deal fairly with smb. ♦ fairly good ♦ fairly simple ♦ fairly speaking ♦ fairly well ♦ get on fairly ♦ go fairly ♦ play the game fairly ♦ treat fairly ♦ write fairly. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fairly": fairly-balanced, fairly-long. | |
Ending with "fairly": security-cum-fairly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "fairly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | taamlik (a, a little, enough, quite, rather, relatively, some, somewhat, sufficiently, to, to some extend, to some extent). (various references) | |
Albanian | vërtet (actually, genuinely, indeed, literally, properly, really, truly, verily, yeah, ywis), qartë (clear, clearly, distinctly, evidently, expressly, it is clear, lucid, neatly, obviously, palpably, patently, plain, plainly, precisely, visibly), njëfarësoj (middling, passable, passably, so so, tolerably), mjaft (come on, enough, noticeably, pretty, quite, quite a few, rather, reasonably, richly, Satis, sufficiently, that's enough, well), me drejtësi (uprightly), haptas (avowedly, honestly, openly, patently, professedly). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقبول (acceptable, accepted, adequate, agreeable, approved of, fair, fairly good, passable, reasonable, sanctioned, subscribed to, taken, tolerable), تماما (all, all right, alright, altogether, completely, decidedly, diametrically, enough, entirely, exactly, fully, in full, just, ok, okay, okey, perfectly, plumb, precisely, properly, quite, quite so, right, sharp, simply, smack, so far so good, stark, stock, thoroughly, through and through, totally, utterly, very, well, wholly, wide), على نحو لائق (properly), بوضوح (apparently, clear, clearly, distinctly, evidently, obviously, overtly, patently, plain, plainly, pointedly, sharply, simply, visibly), بعدل (honestly, rightly), بطريقة شرعية, بإنصاف (impartially, reasonably). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съвсем (all, altogether, clean, clear, completely, directly, dooms, just, largely, most, plain, precious, quite, real, regularly, simply, sopping, spang, thoroughly, to the core, to the wide, totally, up, well, wholly, wide), средно, сравнително (comparatively, reasonably), умерено (mezzo, sparingly), справедливо (deservedly, right, rightly), честно (above board, fair, fair and square, faithfully, honestly, in good faith, on the level, Square, squarely, uprightly), горе-долу (approximately, good enough, in the rough, indifferently, much, pretty, roughly, so so, sort of), напълно (absolutely, all, altogether, amply, clean, completely, dead, entirely, every bit, fully, hollow, intimately, largely, out and out, outright, perfectly, quite, richly, sheer, spang, stark, stiff, thoroughly, through, throughly, to the full, to the letter, to the wide, totally, utterly, well, whole-hog, wholly, wide, without reserve). (various references) | |
Chinese | 相當 (appropriate, considerably, equivalent to, to a certain extent), 相当 (Pretty, Quite), 比較 (comparatively, compare, contrast, quite, rather, relatively). (various references) | |
Czech | spravedlivì (justly), slušnì (decently), obstojnì (tolerably), dost (bit, enough, quite, that's enough, time is up), docela (all, completely, quite, throughout). (various references) | |
Danish | ved den primaere ionisering loesrives hurtigeelektroner, som har en temmelig lang raekkevidde, og som ioniserer luften (high-speed electrons of a fairly wide range are released, owing to primary ionization, which ionize the air), under sommerens stagnationsperiode forbliver de radioaktive stoffer i ret lang tid i zonen med det varme overfladevand : epilimnion (during the summer stagnation period the radioactive substances remain for a fairly extensive period of time in the zone of the warm upper waters - the epilimnion), tykkelsen af den rene zone kan goeres mindre,hvis gasudviklingen standses tidligt nok:den totale heterogenitet er da mindre.Dette er formaalet med metoden med afbrudt gasudvikling,som specielt opnaas ved stoebning i flaskehalskokiller (and the overall heterogeneity is then lower. This is the aim of the practice of interrupted rimming, the thickness of the rim can be reduced by stopping rimming at a fairly early stage, which is achieved in particular by teeming into bottle moulds ( capped ingots )), til kontinuerlig maaling af meget dybe kulsiloers paafyldningsgrad har pejling med ultralyd vaeret brugt (ultrasonic echo sounding has been used for continuous level measurement in fairly deep bunkers), test-aerosolen produceres med en generator, som soerger for, at man opnaar toerre partikler af naesten ensartet stoerrelse (the test-aerosol is produced by a generator which allows dry particles of fairly uniform size to be obtainesd), temmelig hoeje dosishastigheder fra roentgenstraaling ved normale arbejdsspaendinger (fairly high X-radiation dose rates at normal operating voltages), naar udgangsstrukturen er fin som foelge af fuldstaendig austenitisering ved relativ lav temperatur,kan man faa en meget fragmenteret og uregelmaessigt struktur,hvis der foer bratkoeling sker kraftig kolddeformation ved ca.500 °C foer omdannelsen (before any transformation occurs, when the initial structure is a fine one resulting from complete austenitizing at a fairly low temperature), naar jorden vaelges som returleder ved denne transmission, svaekkes forplantningen ganske vaesentligt (because this mode of propagation uses the ground as the return conductor, its propagation attenuation is fairly high), de endogene indeslutninger har tendens til at fordele sig temmelig jaevnt (endogeneous inclusions tend to be fairly uniformly distributed). (various references) | |
Dutch | vrý (enough, free, free and easy, quite, rather, relatively, sufficiently, unchecked, unoccupied, vacant), tamelijk (relatively, sufficiently), tamelýk (enough, quite, rather, relatively, some, somewhat, sufficiently, to some extent), aardig (affable, amusing, dainty, entertaining, fair, friendly, funny, good-natured, kind, nice, pretty, rather, relatively, tidy). (various references) | |
Esperanto | relative (rather, relatively). (various references) | |
Faeroese | upp á seg (rather, relatively), til tað (rather, relatively). (various references) | |
Finnish | melko, kutakuinkin (tolerably), kuta (tolerably), koko (dimensions, entire, integral, overall, rather, size, stature, the whole, volume, whole), kohtalaisen, jotensakin (something like), jotenkin (anyway, rather, somehow), jotakuinkin, jokseenkin (almost), auttavasti (tolerably). (various references) | |
French | tout à fait, tante, relativement, honnêtement, d'une manière acceptable, clairement, avec justice, équitablement. (various references) | |
German | ziemlich (a little, almost, comparatively, considerable, enough, fair, fitting, most, nearly, pretty, proper, quite, rather, reasonable, reasonably, relatively, sizable, sizeable, some, somewhat, sufficient, sufficiently, to some extent, tolerably), ehrlich (aboveboard, above-board, candid, candidly, downright, faithfully, frankly, honest, honestly, really, sincere, squarely, straightforward, transparent, truly, upright). (various references) | |
Greek | αρκετά (considerableably, considerably, enough, pretty, quite, rather, reasonably, sufficiently), δίκαια (deservedly, equitably, faintly, judicially). (various references) | |
Hebrew | למדי (enough, pretty, quite, somewhat, sufficiently), כיאות (correctly, properly), כהוגן (correctly, duly, properly, suitably, well), במדה מספקת (enough), בהגינות (squarely). (various references) | |
Hungarian | méltányosan (evenly, fair and square), korrektül (above board, aboveboard, fair, fair and square, to play fair, to play sy fair, to play the game), elég (adequate, burn, burn out, enough, enow, have a fair knowledge of english, respectable, suffice, sufficient, that's enough, to burn away, to burn out, to last, to last out, to suffice), egészen (completely, entirely, even, home, just, outright, plumb, quite, throughout, to drive sg home, to the full, to the top of one's bent, totally, wholly). (various references) | |
Indonesian | dengan tulus. (various references) | |
Italian | onestamente (frankly, honestly, straightforwardly, virtuously), giustamente (aright, correctly, exactly, justly, right, rightly, sharp), equamente (equally), discretamente (discreetly, quite well), abbastanza (enough, quite, rather, relatively, sufficiently, tolerably). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | まんざら夢ではない (artfully, nicely, not altogether a dream, successfully, thoroughly), 大部 (a good deal, greater, most, much), 中々 (by no means, considerably, easily, highly, quite, rather, readily, very), 中中 (by no means, considerably, easily, highly, quite, rather, readily, very), 可成 (considerably, quite), 可也 (considerably, quite). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいぶ (a good deal, greater, most, much), なかなか (by no means, considerably, easily, highly, quite, rather, readily, very), まんまと (artfully, nicely, successfully, thoroughly), かなり (considerably, quite), だいぶ (a good deal, a lot, considerably, greater, greatly, most, much). (various references) | |
Korean | 공정하게 (Equitably). (various references) | |
Malay | agak (a little, enough, quite, rather, relatively, some, somewhat, sufficiently, to some extent). (various references) | |
Norwegian | nokså. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airlyfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | razoavelmente (middling, pretty, reasonably). (various references) | |
Quechua | as. (various references) | |
Romanian | just (accurate, correct, equitable, even, exact, fair, just, just so, justly, reasonable, right, righteous, rightful, Square, suitable, that's the thing, truly, uprightly), drept (as, attribution, claim, correct, Dexter, direct, directly, due, end on, endways, equitable, erect, even, evenly, exactly, fair, for, forthright, honest, just, justice, justly, kind, law, legitimate, patent, permission, plain, point blank, precisely, privilege, real, reasonable, right, right foot, right leg, righteous, Square, stand, stand up, straight, straightforward, true, truly, truthful, unprejudiced, upright), destul de (middling, moderately, nice and, passably, pretty), complet (absolute, all out, broad, clear, collected, complement, complete, completely, comprehensive, dead, down to the ground, downright, entire, entirely, every bit, every inch, exhaustive, flat, full, fully, good, hollow, outright, perfect, purely, quite, stark, strict, suite, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, to the bone, total, unabridged, utter, utterly, whole), acceptabil (acceptable, acceptably, admissible, agreeable, allowable, eligible, fair, livable, palatable, passable, passably, plausible, possible, reasonable, satisfactory). (various references) | |
Russian | справедливо (justly), честно (above board, aboveboard, above-board, honestly, in good faith, on the level, Square, uprightly), достаточно (enough, satis, sufficiently, that's enough), довольно (pretty). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stvarno (downright, positively, really, substantially, virtually), sasvim (all over, all: at all, clean, completely, dead, entirely, lock up stock and barrel, plunk, quite, sheer, span-new, stark, stinking, throughout, totally, utterly, well, well nigh, whole, wholly, wide), pošteno (fair, honestly, square, straight). (various references) | |
Spanish | rectamente (aright, endways, endwise, uprightly), limpio (chaste, clean, cleanly, clear, fair, Frank, fresh, incautious, net, over the counter, pure, taintless, tidy, transparent, unpolluted), justamente (aright, exactly, just, justly, sharp), con justicia (justly), completamente (all, all out, altogether, blankly, clearly, completely, consummately, dead, downright, entirely, flat, full, fully, holus-bolus, Plumb, properly, quite, right, sheer, thoroughly, through, through and through, up to the hilt), bastante (a good bit, a good deal, a good few, a little, enough, lot, nice, passably, pretty, quite, quite a bit, quite a bit of, quite a few, quite a lot of, rather, some, somewhat, sufficient, sufficiently, to some extend, to some extent). (various references) | |
Swedish | tämligen (moderately, pretty, rather, tolerably), någorlunda (a little, fairly good, in a fashion, moderately, passably, pretty, rather, some, somewhat, to some extent, tolerably). (various references) | |
Thai | อย่างพอสมควร (moderately), อย่างยุติธรรม (fair, honestly, impartially, objectively, rightfully). (various references) | |
Turkish | harfi harfine (factual, fair, literally, literatim, strict, to the letter, verbal, verbatim, word by word, word for word), adeta (almost, in fact, nearly, so to say, so to speak), adilane (equitably, fair, justly), büsbütün (all, altogether, dead, downright, entirely, fair, quite, sheer, staring, stark, wholly), dürüstçe (above board, fair, faithfully, frankly, honestly, rightly), dosdoğru (as the crow flies, directly, fair, right, right ahead, right on, straight, straight ahead, straight as a die), epey (a good deal of, a great deal of, a great many, goodish, not a little, pretty well, quite, reasonably, some, tidy, well), açıkça (above board, avowedly, bluntly, clear, clearly, cloudlessly, declaredly, definitely, directly, distinctly, downright, evidently, expressly, flatly, frankly, in round terms, manifestly, nakedly, openly, outright, outspokenly, plainly, plump, point blank, professedly, roundly, simply, straight out), güzelce (fair, in style, nicely, well), uygunca (agreeably, fair, properly), oldukça (a bit of a, a good many, a whale of, good, pretty, quite, rather, reasonably, somewhat, spanking, substantially, well, well enough, whopping), safça (innocently, naively, purely), tam olarak (accurately, completely, evenly, every bit, exactly, flat, fully, implicitly, in depth, in full, Plumb, positively, quite, right, rightdown, rootedly, roundly, slap bang, smack, straight, strictly, to a t, true), tarafsızca (detachedly, dispassionately, indifferently, neutrally, objectively), temiz (chaste, clean, clean-handed, cleanly, clear, fair, fresh, kosher, neat, neatly, pure, respectable, sanitary, Spruce, tidy, unpolluted, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained), uygun bir şekilde (agreeably, fair, properly, warrantably, worthily), epeyce (goodly, just about, pretty, quite a few). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сприятливо (auspiciously, highly, kindly, opportunely), чесно (above board, fair, faithfully, honestly, honorably, honourably, scrupulously, sincerely, Square, straight, uprightly), цілком (absolutely, all, all in all, all of, all out, altogether, at all, bodily, broad, clean, clear, completely, duly, en bloc, entirely, full, fully, hollow, nicely, outright, perfectly, pure, purely, quite, richly, soundly, thoroughly, well, wholly), досить (amply, belay, deep, drop it, enough, nothing else, nuff, once, passable, plenty, pretty, relatively, say no more, something, sufficiently). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thẳng thắn (downright, fair, fair-dealing, forthright, frank, free-hearted, hunky, level, plain-spoken, sporting, sporty, square, straight), rõ rệt (distinctly, evident, pronounced, sharp, transparent, unequivocal, visibly), không thiên vị; chính đáng; ngay thẳng, không gian lận khá (fair), kha khá hoàn toàn thật sự rõ ràng, công bằng (equitable, even-handed, fair, fair-minded, impartial, rightful). (various references) | |
Welsh | pur (pure, rather, sincere, very), gweddol (fair). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aeque, iuste, satis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "fairly": unfairly. (additional references) | |
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"Fairly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fagioli, faily, faimly, fainly, faircliff, fairey, Fairleys, Faisley, faitly, faril, farily, farliy, farly, fearly, feirey, fialy, fiatly, foirl, hairly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fairly" (pronounced fe"rlē) |
| 5 | f e" r l ē | unfairly. |
| 4 | -e" r l ē | barely, rarely, squarely. |
| 3 | -r l ē | austerely, barley, cavalierly, Charley, Charlie, clearly, dearly, demurely, gnarly, hourly, merely, nearly, parley, poorly, prematurely, purely, securely, severely, sincerely, sorely, surely, yearly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-l-r-y" | |
-1 letter: fairy, filar, flair, frail, riyal. | |
-2 letters: airy, alif, aril, aryl, fail, fair, farl, fiar, fila, flay, fray, lair, lari, liar, lira, rail, rial. | |
-3 letters: ail, air, arf, far, fay, fil, fir, fly, fry, lar, lay, ray, ria, rif, rya, yar. | |
-4 letters: ai, al, ar, ay, fa, if, la, li, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-l-r-y" | |
+1 letter: clarify, frailly, frailty, friarly. | |
+2 letters: craftily, draftily, fireclay, freakily, unfairly. | |
+3 letters: bifilarly, fairishly, fairyland, fairylike, fireclays, flaringly, formality, fragility, frugality, raffishly, requalify, ruffianly. | |
+4 letters: clarifying, dwarfishly, fairylands, familiarly, farcically, forgivably, formidably, freakishly, friability, fritillary, frontality, infernally, informally, ladyfinger, prequalify, profitably, profligacy, reclassify, wearifully. | |
+5 letters: certifiably, factorylike, falteringly, familiarity, farcicality, filamentary, filmography, foolhardily, formability, formatively, fractiously, frantically, gallimaufry, informality, infrangibly, interfamily, irrefutably, ladyfingers, nefariously, parfocality, prolificacy, superfamily. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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