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PASSABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does passably mean? 

PASSABLY (adverb)
  The adverb PASSABLY has 1 sense:

1. to certain extent or degreeplay

  Familiarity information: PASSABLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PASSABLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

To certain extent or degree

Synonyms:

fairly; jolly; middling; moderately; passably; pretty; reasonably; somewhat

Context example:

he is fairly clever with computers


 Context examples 


“These will do very passably,” said he.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes he fell and cut himself; sometimes he lay all day long in his little bunk at one side of the companion; sometimes for a day or two he would be almost sober and attend to his work at least passably.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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