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reachably

adv

Etymology

From reachab(le) + -ly.

  1. derived from *Hreyǵ-✻ — “to bind, reach”
  2. inherited from *raikijaną✻
  3. inherited from *raikijan✻
  4. inherited from rǣċan — “to reach”
  5. inherited from rechen
  6. suffixed as reachable — “reach + -able”
  7. suffixed as reachably — “reachable + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a reachable way.

    • Store anything light by hanging it as high as reachably possible. This keeps it out of the stumbling-over path, yet readily accessible.
    • Along the corridor, where they kept the dry stores, he met another heavy and jammed door. It tilted slightly forward, and because its handle sat reachably above his head, he had a better chance of levering it ajar.
    • She seems almost incapable of abstraction or fraudulence; she instinctively grabs for the reachably real.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA