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(noun) any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran) |
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Related Words: commodity, goods |
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(satellite adjective) of no exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" |
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Synonyms: average, fair, mediocre |
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(adverb) to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason" |
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Synonyms: fairly, moderately, passably, reasonably, somewhat, within reason |
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