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Contraposition Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

fairly but not quite

What does 'fairly but not quite' mean?
  

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e. the phrase as a whole means "to some extent, but not exactly".

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  • the phrase as a whole means "to some extent, but not exactly".
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For it to make sense, I would guess that "quite" must mean "exactly", i.e. the phrase as a whole means "to some extent, but not exactly".

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