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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Free from bias in judgment: disinterested, dispassionate, equitable, fair, fair-minded, impartial, indifferent, nonpartisan, objective, square, unbiased, unprejudiced. Idioms: fair and square. See FAIR. 2. Consistent with prevailing or accepted standards or circumstances: appropriate, deserved, due, fit1, fitting, merited, proper, right, rightful, suitable. See RIGHT. 3. Based on good judgment, reasoning, or evidence: cogent, solid, sound2, tight, valid, well-founded, well-grounded. See GOOD, REASON. | | ADVERB: | 1. By a very little; almost not: barely, hardly, scarce, scarcely. See NEAR. 2. To the fullest extent: absolutely, all, altogether, completely, dead, entirely, flat, fully, perfectly, quite, thoroughly, totally, utterly, well2, wholly. Informal : clean, clear. Idioms: in toto, through and through. See BIG, LIMITED. 3. With precision or absolute conformity: bang, dead, direct, directly, exactly, fair, flush, precisely, right, smack1, square, squarely, straight. Slang : smack-dab. See PRECISE. 4. In an exact manner: even1, exactly, precisely. See PRECISE, SAME. 5. Only a moment ago: newly, recently. See TIME. 6. Nothing more than: merely, only. See INCLUDE, SPECIFIC.
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