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1. fairly
adverb. ['ˈfɛrli'] to a moderately sufficient extent or degree.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- -ly (English)
- -lice (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
- fair (English)
- feire (English)
Rhymes with Fairly
- squarely
- wehrly
- wehrli
- rarely
- fairlie
- fairley
- barely
- airlie
Sentences with fairly
1. Adverb
The ingredients are fairly simple and you don't even need to use bread flour, either.
Quotes about fairly
1. I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.
- Karl Pilkington
2. At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional spoken word poet who tours the world performing and teaching. I run an organization called Project VOICE dedicated to using this art form as an education and empowerment tool in schools and communities of all kinds.
- Sarah Kay
3. I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.
- Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman