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reachably en · ADV

Etymology

From reachab(le) + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a reachable way.
   • The fair, which is on view till Sunday, is now reachably moored in Manhattan, a block or so from the Hudson, at the Shed on West 30th Street. 2023 May 18, Holland Cotter, “At Frieze New York 2023, One-Person Shows That Shine”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 May 2023:
   • 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. 2006, Frank Delaney, Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, pages 107–108:
   • Store anything light by hanging it as high as reachably possible. This keeps it out of the stumbling-over path, yet readily accessible. 1984, Don Aslett, Clutter's Last Stand: It's Time to De-Junk Your Life!, Cincinnati, O.H.: Writer's Digest Books, →ISBN, page 92:
   • She seems almost incapable of abstraction or fraudulence; she instinctively grabs for the reachably real. 2012 April 30, James Wood, “Invitation To a Beheading”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2023:

Forms

Antonyms

unreachably