reachably
English
editEtymology
editFrom reachab(le) + -ly.
Adverb
editreachably (comparative more reachably, superlative most reachably)
- In a reachable way.
- Antonym: unreachably
- 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:
- Store anything light by hanging it as high as reachably possible. This keeps it out of the stumbling-over path, yet readily accessible.
- 2006, Frank Delaney, Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, pages 107–108:
- 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.
- 2012 April 30, James Wood, “Invitation To a Beheading”, in The New Yorker[1], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-22:
- She seems almost incapable of abstraction or fraudulence; she instinctively grabs for the reachably real.
- 2023 May 18, Holland Cotter, “At Frieze New York 2023, One-Person Shows That Shine”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-19:
- 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.