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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 degree
Familiarity information: PASSABLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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