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Passably   /pˈæsəbli/   Listen
Passably

adverb
1.
To a moderately sufficient extent or degree.  Synonyms: fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, pretty, reasonably, somewhat.  "Pretty bad" , "Jolly decent of him" , "The shoes are priced reasonably" , "He is fairly clever with computers"





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"Passably" Quotes from Famous Books



... love; and love means — God!"*3* Even more explicit is this declaration in a letter of May, 1873, to Hayne: "I don't know that I've told you that whatever turn I may have for art is purely MUSICAL; poetry being with me A MERE TANGENT INTO WHICH I SHOOT SOMETIMES. I could play passably on several instruments before I could write legibly, and SINCE then the very deepest of my life has been filled with music, which I have studied and cultivated far more than poetry."*4* We have already seen incidentally that in his 'Symphony' the speakers are musical instruments; and it ...
— Select Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier


Words linked to "Passably" :   unreasonably, immoderately


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