fairly
adverb (QUITE) /ˈfeə.li/
/ˈfer-/ Definition
B1 more than average, but less than very: She's fairly tall. I'm fairly sure that this is the right address. We get on fairly well. I saw her fairly recently.Some and quite › literary used to emphasize figurative expressions that describe what people or objects are doing: The answer fairly jumps off the page at you! The dog fairly flew out of the door to greet him.AlmostMerely and barely
(Definition of fairly adverb (QUITE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- bit noun (AMOUNT)
- certain pronoun
- faintly adverb
- ha'porth noun
- halfway adverb
- little adverb (SMALL AMOUNT)
- marginally adverb
- mildly adverb
- quite adverb, predeterminer
- rather adverb (SMALL AMOUNT)
- reasonably adverb
- remotely adverb (SLIGHTLY)
- several determiner, pronoun
- some ... or other idiom
- some determiner (PARTICULAR THING)
- some determiner (UNKNOWN AMOUNT)
- sort of idiom
- to a/some degree idiom
- touch noun (SMALL AMOUNT)
- trifle noun (UNIMPORTANT THING)
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