legibly

American  

[lej-uh-blee] / ˈlɛdʒ ə bli /

adverb

1. in a way that is capable of being easily read, deciphered, or discerned.

   The reason your printer isn’t printing legibly is that it’s low on toner.

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Etymology

Origin of legibly

legibl(e) ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

Why persist with handwritten business documents when a well-built writing machine could do everything faster and more legibly?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

His campaign, seeking a complete ban on handwritten prescriptions, bore fruit when in 2016, the Medical Council of India ordered that "every physician should prescribe drugs with generic names legibly and preferably in capital letters".

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

As a boy, her oldest son had struggled with learning to write legibly.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2022

Adès is by no means an avant-gardist, and this work, for all its sophistication, is entirely approachable — legibly fun, vivid and, by the end, glorious.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2022

With my fingers too cold to write legibly I huddled next to the fireplace, daydreaming about how several DNA chains could fold together in a pretty and hopefully scientific way.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson