fairly
When you do something fairly, you treat everyone with equal consideration. Sharing a pizza fairly between six people is easy: just give each person one slice.
A teacher who doesn't treat all students fairly isn't a very good teacher — and a police officer who doesn't act fairly toward all citizens is also doing a poor job. When you behave fairly, you're unbiased and impartial, and you follow the rules. You can also use this adverb to mean "to a large degree" or "reasonably." For example, you could say, "I'm fairly certain that it's going to snow again tomorrow."
Definitions of fairly
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without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner“deal fairly with one another”
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synonyms:
evenhandedly, fair
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in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating
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to a moderately sufficient extent or degree“he is fairly clever with computers”
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synonyms:
jolly, middling, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat
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Antonyms:
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immoderately, unreasonably
to a degree that exceeds the bounds or reason or moderation
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immoderately, unreasonably
Pronunciation
US
/ˈfɛərli/
UK
/ˈfɛəli/
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