Reasonably

Definitions: Reasonably

Reasonably

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".

2. With good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner; "he acted sensibly in the crisis"; "speak more sanely about these affairs"; "acted quite reasonably".

Date "reasonably" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Reasonably

Synonyms: fairly (adv), middling (adv), moderately (adv), passably (adv), sanely (adv), sensibly (adv), somewhat (adv), within reason (adv). (additional references)

Antonym: unreasonably (adv). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Crap. Look at this Now I'm burdened with a husband and several tiny pink children and more cash than I can reasonably manage. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go, when things have gotten about as bad as they can reasonably get. (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; writing credit: Tom Stoppard;)
Movie/TV Titles	Reasonably Scary Monsters (1998)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	How to Be a Reasonably Thin Teenage Girl: Without Starving, Losing Your Friends, or Running Away from Home (reference) Kent Montana and the Reasonably Invisible Man (reference) Microsoft Window for Reasonably Intelligent People: Hands-On Windows With Word Processing and Spreadsheet Basics (reference) Posers Eighty Delightful Hurdles for Reasonably Ag (reference) Products Liability and the Reasonably Safe Product: A Guide for Management, Design, and Marketing (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Reasonably Priced Marketing 1 (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Concrete worker resting while his wife looks for apartments in the want ads. He works the night shift. They have been unable to find a reasonably priced apartment and are living in a tent. They are from Washington. Pacific Beach, California.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Richard Whately	It is a folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Russell H. Conwell	Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	All rights in, or in respect of, such property which may have lapsed by reason of any failure to accomplish any act, fulfil any formality, or make any payment, shall revive, but subject in the case of patents and designs to the imposition of such conditions as each Allied or Associated Power may deem reasonably necessary for the protection of persons who have manufactured or made use of the subject matter of such property while the rights had lapsed. (reference)
Brown v. Board of Education	1954	In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. (reference)
Roe v. Wade	1973	For the stage subsequent to approximately the end of the first trimester, the State, in promoting its interest in the health of the mother, may, if it chooses, regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Uncle Charles and Mr Dedalus pulled Mr Casey back into his chair again, talking to him from both sides reasonably.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	In the pursuit of which by thrift and management, I might reasonably expect, in about two hundred years to be the wealthiest man in the kingdom.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	But I can assure my readers that Walden has a reasonably tight bottom at a not unreasonable, though at an unusual, depth.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		However, jogging, football, and many other sports are reasonably safe for a person with epilepsy. (references)
		Today, with good health care, many people with sickle cell anemia are in reasonably good health much of the time and living productive lives. (references)
		These trials are usually very large, as they must involve enough patients to reasonably show the drug's benefits and potential adverse reactions. (references)
Business		The U.S. is known for durable, reasonably priced, high quality attire. (references)
		Finally, one needs use reasonably comparable financial line items or standards. (references)
		Products need to be reasonably priced and developed specifically for China's needs. (references)
Civil Liberties	United Kingdom	Individuals also are subject to prosecution for supporting or inviting support for a proscribed terrorist organization, arranging or addressing meetings by proscribed organizations, or wearing clothing or carrying or displaying articles that would reasonably arouse suspicion of membership in a proscribed organization. (references)
Economic History	Turkey	Compensation must be reasonably prompt, adequate, and effective. (references)
	Portugal	Portugal offers a reasonably priced market in which to advertise. (references)
Human Rights	Ireland	The law allows a court to refuse bail to a person charged with a serious offense where it is considered reasonably necessary to prevent the commission of another serious offense. (references)
	Trinidad and Tobago	The Minister must provide the tribunal with the grounds for the detention within 7 days of the detainee's request for review, which shall be held "as soon as reasonably practicable" following receipt of the grounds. (references)
	Uzbekistan	In ordinary criminal cases, the police generally identify and then arrest those reasonably suspected of the crime; however, both the police and the NSS are far less discriminating in cases involving perceived risks to national security. (references)
Political Economy	INDONESIA	In the largely western-operated oil sector, safety and health programs function reasonably well. (references)
	PANAMA	Overall, the processing of customs documents for manufactured or mineral imports is reasonably quick, efficient, and reliable. (references)
	Yemen	International observers judged that the elections were reasonably free and fair, while noting some problems with voting procedures. (references)
Trade	India	Export finance in India is reasonably liberal. (references)
Travel	Chad	Reliable and reasonably priced taxis are yellow in color. (references)
	Botswana	A number of reasonably priced lodges exist within Gaborone. (references)
Worker Rights	Mexico	STPS and IMSS officials continued to report that compliance is reasonably good at most large companies. (references)
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Workers enjoy a reasonably safe working environment; however, the trade unions addressed some violations relating to safety gear, long overtime hours, and the safety of machinery. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	But I am fully persuaded, if they are not commenced in a proper manner, confined to proper objects, and conducted under an authority generally conceded to be rightful, that a successful prosecution of them can not be reasonably expected.
Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all.
Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893	That which a sense of justice restrains us from seeking they may be reasonably expected willingly to forego.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Reasonably" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.87% of the time. "Reasonably" is used about 3,058 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)	99.87%	3,054	3,070
Noun (proper)	0.13%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	3,058	N/A

Expressions using "reasonably": as low as reasonably achievable ♦ reasonably well. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "reasonably": reasonably-minded, reasonably-priced, reasonably-rated, reasonably-sized, reasonably-uniform.
	Ending with "reasonably": science-reasonably.
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 "reasonably"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		në mënyrë të arsyeshme (rationally), mjaft (come on, enough, fairly, noticeably, pretty, quite, quite a few, rather, richly, Satis, sufficiently, that's enough, well). (various references)

Arabic		‏بتفكير مسبق, ‏بعقلانية (rationally), ‏بإنصاف (fairly, impartially), ‏بإعتدال (evenly, middling, moderately, sparingly). (various references)

Bulgarian		сравнително (comparatively, fairly), разумно (politically, rationally), доста (considerably, distinctly, great deal, half, nice and, pretty, quite, rather, some, somewhat, tolerably, well). (various references)

Chinese		合理地 (rationally). (various references)

Czech		rozumnì (sensibly, soberly, soundly). (various references)

Danish		de ud fra ionkammer-målingerne beregnede værdier stemte rimeligt godt overens med dem der blev opnået med den landsomme,i handelen værende film (there was reasonably good agreement between values calculated from ion chamber measurements and those obtained on the slow commercial film). (various references)

Dutch		redelijk (rational). (various references)

Finnish		kohtuudella ei voi enempää vaatia (more cannot reasonably be demanded), kohtalaisen hyvä (reasonably good). (various references)

French		raisonnablement. (various references)

German		vernünftige (judiciously), vernünftig (decent, decently, judicious, level headed, mature, maturely, moderate, properly, prudent, rational, rationally, reasonable, right-minded, sane, sensible, sensibly, sober, sober minded, sound, soundly, thinking, wise). (various references)

Greek		λογικώσ. (various references)

Hungarian		meglehetõsen (considerably, enough, fairly, pretty, rather), ésszerûen (consequently, rationally). (various references)

Italian		Tanto basso quanto ragionevolmente ottenibile (as low as reasonably achievable), sviluppare un modello matematico che consenta di prevedere il trasporto di vari radionuclidi in varie condizioni ambientali (to develop a mathematical model which reasonably predicts the transport of various radionuclides under different environmental conditions), c'era una buona corrispondenza tra i valori calcolati con le misure della camera di ionizzazione e quelli ottenuti con la pellicola commerciale a bassa sensibilit� (there was reasonably good agreement between values calculated from ion chamber measurements and those obtained on the slow commercial film). (various references)

Korean		합당하게. (various references)

Malagasy		tsaratsara. (various references)

Pig Latin		easonablyray

Portuguese		razoavelmente (fairly, middling, pretty), sensatamente. (various references)

Romanian		rezonabil (advised, fair, moderate, possible, rational, reasonable, sane), raţional (judicious, logical, lucid, philosophic, philosophical, rational, rationalistic, rationally, reasonable, sensible, sound, soundly), natural (careless, certainly, easy, genuine, home-bred, innocent, kind, lifelike, matter of course, native, natural, naturally, physical, primitive, real, simple, undisguised, unsophisticated, unvarnished), în chip rezonabil. (various references)

Russian		умеренно (abstemiously, in moderation, moderately, sparely, sparingly, temperately), приемлемо (acceptably, adequately, alright). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		razumno (logically, lucidly, rationally, sensibly), razuman (intellectual, intelligible, judicious, knowing, level headed, levelheaded, lucid, reasonable, reasoned, reasoning, right-minded, sane, sensible). (various references)

Spanish		razonablemente (sensibly, soundly), razonable (acceptable, fair, rational, reasonable, right, sensible, sound). (various references)

Swedish		rimligtvis, rimligen, skäligen (pretty), ganska (enough, fairly, kind of, middling, plenty, pretty, quite, rather, some, to a degree, tolerably, very), förnuftigt. (various references)

Turkish		oldukça (a bit of a, a good many, a whale of, fairly, good, pretty, quite, rather, somewhat, spanking, substantially, well, well enough, whopping), mantıklı olarak, makul bir şekilde (understandably), epey (a good deal of, a great deal of, a great many, fairly, goodish, not a little, pretty well, quite, some, tidy, well), akla uygun olarak. (various references)

Ukranian		розумно (rationally, sensibly, well, wittily), прийнятно, помірно (abstemiously, frugally). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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

Derivations
	Words ending with "reasonably": treasonably, unreasonably. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Reasonably" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reasnabell, reasonablly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "reasonably" (pronounced rē"zunublē)
9	r ē" z u n u b l ē	unreasonably.
8	-ē" z u n u b l ē	unseasonably.
6	-u n u b l ē	fashionably, interminably, unquestionably.
4	-u b l ē	admirably, amiably, amicably, appreciably, arguably, audibly, charitably, comfortably, comparably, conceivably, considerably, credibly, creditably, demonstrably, equitably, favorably, feasibly, flexibly, forcibly, formidably, honorably, horribly, impeccably, imperceptibly, implausibly, impossibly, improbably, incomparably, incredibly, indelibly, indisputably, inevitably, inexorably, inexplicably, inextricably, inseparably, interchangeably, intolerably, invariably, irreparably, irresistibly, irresponsibly, irretrievably, irreversibly, irrevocably, justifiably, knowledgeably, measurably, memorably, miserably, notably, noticeably, ostensibly, palpably, passably, peaceably, plausibly, possibly, predictably, preferably, presumably, probably, profitably, recognizably, regrettably, reliably, remarkably, respectably, responsibly, sensibly, suitably, terribly, unacceptably, unaccountably, unalterably, unavoidably, unbearably, unbelievably, uncomfortably, uncontrollably, undeniably, understandably, unequivocably, unfavorably, unjustifiably, unmistakably, unpredictably, 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-e-l-n-o-r-s-y"
	-2 letters: abalones, analyser, baloneys, blarneys.
	-3 letters: abalone, analyse, arables, areolas, arsenal, baloney, barleys, baryons, blarney, boranes, loaners, reloans, rosebay, sabayon, sayable, soberly, soybean.
	-4 letters: abaser, aboral, anears, anoles, arable, arenas, areola, arseno, balers, barely, barley, barons, barony, baryes, baryon, basely, beanos, belays, beryls, blares, blears, bleary, boners, borals, borane, boreal, boyars, boylas, enrols, labors, lanose, layers, learns, loaner, loners, lorans, nearby, nearly, nerols, nobler, nobles, nyalas, rayons, reason, relays, reloan, robles, royals, salary, sanely, senary, senora, slayer, snarly, sorely, yearns, yerbas.
	-5 letters: abase, abler, ables, abyes, aeons, alane, alans, alary, albas, aloes, alone, anear, anlas, anoas, anole, ansae, areal, areas, arena, arles, arose, arson, aryls, asyla, baals, balas, baler, bales, balsa, banal, banes, bares, barns, barny, baron, barye, basal, baser, beano, beans, bears, belay, beryl, blare, blase, blear, boars, bolar, bolas, boles, boner, bones, boney, boral, boras, bores, borne, boyar, boyla, braes, brans, brays, brens, brose, brosy, byres, byrls, earls, early, earns, ebons, ebony, elans, enols, enrol, eyras, labor, labra, lanes, lares, laser, layer, leans, learn, lears, leary, lenos, loans, lobar, lobes, loner, loran, lores, loser, lyase, lyres, nabes, nares, nasal, nears, nerol, noble, nobly, noels, nosey, nyala, obeys, onery, orals, orles, oyers, rales, rayas, rayon, reals, relay, renal, resay, roans, robes, roble, roles, royal, saber, sable, sabra, sabre, salon, saner, saran, sayer, senor, seral, slyer, snare, snarl, snore, sober, solan, solar, sonar, sonly, sorel, syren, yarns, yeans, yearn, years, yerba, yores.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-l-n-o-r-s-y"
	+1 letter: treasonably.
	+2 letters: unreasonably.
	+3 letters: reasonability.
	+4 letters: polycarbonates.
	+5 letters: observationally.
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