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Meaning of fairly

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  fairly
      adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty
             big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are
             priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"
             [syn: {reasonably}, {moderately}, {pretty}, {jolly},
             {somewhat}, {fairly}, {middling}, {passably}] [ant:
             {immoderately}, {unreasonably}]
      2: without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner;
         "deal fairly with one another" [syn: {fairly}, {fair},
         {evenhandedly}]
      3: in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or
         cheating; "they played fairly" [syn: {fairly}, {fair},
         {clean}] [ant: {below the belt}, {unfairly}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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