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Adverb: fairly  fehr-lee
  1. To certain extent or degree
    "he is fairly clever with computers";
    - reasonably, moderately, pretty [informal], jolly [Brit, informal], somewhat, middling, passably, middlingly, averagely
     
  2. Without favouring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner
    "deal fairly with one another";
    - fair, evenhandedly
     
  3. In conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating
    "they played fairly";
    - fair, clean

Antonym: below the belt

Encyclopedia: Fairly