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reasonably

adv
/ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/

Etymology

From Middle English resonably, equivalent to reasonable + -ly. Piecewise doublet of rationably.

  1. inherited from resonably

Definitions

  1. In accordance with reason.

    • They were able handle their disagreements reasonably.

  2. Fairly

    Fairly; satisfactorily; not extremely.

    • The shoes were reasonably priced.
    • Fanny said she would drive to Center Campobello, but Dubin in his laryngitic voice told her he was reasonably sure he could make it to her after another week.

  3. Quite

    Quite; to some extent.

    • That car goes reasonably fast.

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at reasonably. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at reasonably. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at reasonably

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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