Passably

Definition: Passably

Passably

Adverb

1. To a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason".

Date "passably" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)

Synonyms: Passably

Synonyms: fairly (adv), middling (adv), moderately (adv), reasonably (adv), somewhat (adv), within reason (adv). (additional references)

Antonym: unreasonably (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Smallness	Adverb: to a small extent, on a small scale; a little bit, a wee bit; slightly; Adjective: imperceptibly; miserably, wretchedly; insufficiently; imperfectly; faintly; passably, pretty well, well enough.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

"Passably" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Passably" is used about 13 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%	13	97,576

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "passably": well-passably.
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 "passably"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		njëfarësoj (fairly, middling, passable, so so, tolerably), mjaftueshëm (duly, enough). (various references)

Bulgarian		сносно, задоволително (all right, well). (various references)

Chinese		可通过地. (various references)

German		vertretbar (arguable, defensible, justifiable, reasonable, tenable), passierbar (negotiable, passable). (various references)

Greek		υποφερτώσ (sufferably, supportably, tolerably). (various references)

Hungarian		megjárja (to be passably good), elég jó (fair, fair enough, fair to middling, passable, respectable, tidy, to be passably good). (various references)

Korean		상당하게 (Considerably). (various references)

Manx		dy cossylagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		assablypay

Romanian		pasabil (palatable, passable), destul de (fairly, middling, moderately, nice and, pretty), acceptabil (acceptable, acceptably, admissible, agreeable, allowable, eligible, fair, fairly, livable, palatable, passable, plausible, possible, reasonable, satisfactory). (various references)

Russian		удовлетворительно (alright, satisfactorily, satisfyingly). (various references)

Spanish		bastante (a good bit, a good deal, a good few, a little, enough, fairly, lot, nice, 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		någorlunda (a little, fairly, fairly good, in a fashion, moderately, pretty, rather, some, somewhat, to some extent, tolerably), hjälpligt. (various references)

Vietnamese		t� m tạm (dusty, tolerable), đạt yêu cầu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tolerabilius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "passably": impassably. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Passably" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aisalby, passal. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "passably" (pronounced pa"sublē)
5	-s u b l ē	flexibly, forcibly, impossibly, irresponsibly, irreversibly, noticeably, ostensibly, peaceably, possibly, responsibly, sensibly.
4	-u b l ē	admirably, amiably, amicably, appreciably, arguably, audibly, charitably, comfortably, comparably, conceivably, considerably, credibly, creditably, demonstrably, equitably, fashionably, favorably, feasibly, formidably, honorably, horribly, impeccably, imperceptibly, implausibly, improbably, incomparably, incredibly, indelibly, indisputably, inevitably, inexorably, inexplicably, inextricably, inseparably, interchangeably, interminably, intolerably, invariably, irreparably, irresistibly, irretrievably, irrevocably, justifiably, knowledgeably, measurably, memorably, miserably, notably, palpably, plausibly, predictably, preferably, presumably, probably, profitably, reasonably, recognizably, regrettably, reliably, remarkably, respectably, suitably, terribly, unacceptably, unaccountably, unalterably, unavoidably, unbearably, unbelievably, uncomfortably, uncontrollably, undeniably, understandably, unequivocably, unfavorably, unjustifiably, unmistakably, unpredictably, unquestionably, unreasonably, unseasonably, visibly.
3	-b l ē	ably, assembly, bubbly, doubly, feebly, glibly, humbly, immeasurably, nimbly, nobly, reassembly, subassembly, superbly, trembly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-l-p-s-s-y"
	-1 letter: abyssal.
	-2 letters: balsas, bassly, bypass, playas, salpas, splays.
	-3 letters: abyss, albas, assay, asyla, baals, balas, balsa, basal, bassy, lyssa, palsy, playa, plays, salpa, salps, salsa, slabs, slaps, slays, spays, splay.
	-4 letters: aals, abas, ably, abys, alas, alba, albs, alps, asps, baal, baas, bals, baps, bass, bays, labs, laps, lass, lays, pals, paly, pass, pays, play, pyas, sabs, salp, sals, saps, says, slab, slap, slay, spas, spay, yaps.
	-5 letters: aal, aas, aba, abs, aby, ala, alb, alp, als, asp, ass, ays, baa, bal, bap, bas, bay, bys, lab, lap, las, lay, pal, pas, pay, ply, pya, sab, sal, sap, say, sly, spa, spy, yap.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-l-p-s-s-y"
	+2 letters: hypabyssal, impassably.
	+4 letters: hypabyssally.
	+5 letters: impassability.
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