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Easily   /ˈizəli/   Listen
Easily

adverb
1.
With ease ('easy' is sometimes used informally for 'easily').  Synonym: easy.  "Was easily confused" , "He won easily" , "This china breaks very easily" , "Success came too easy"
2.
Without question.
3.
Indicating high probability; in all likelihood.  Synonym: well.  "A mistake that could easily have ended in disaster" , "You may well need your umbrella" , "He could equally well be trying to deceive us"






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"Easily" Quotes from Famous Books



... truth, Jack, this two hundred pounds, which I earned so easily, has just come in the right time, and with it and my pilotage I shall now be able to do ...
— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat

... Perniciosa, though a very annoying, is by no means a dangerous disease, and has the additional advantage of a specific remedy. The Romans themselves of the better class seldom suffer from it, and I cannot but think that with a little prudence it may be easily avoided. Those who are most attacked by it are the laborers and contadini on the Campagna; and how can it be otherwise with them? They sleep often on the bare ground, or on a little straw under a capanna ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 31, May, 1860 • Various

... affections; lastly, the parts of speech, and the particular mutations connected with each, as inflection, number, contraction, accents, position in the sentence; then we begin to read and write, at first in syllables and slowly, but when we have attained the necessary certainty, easily and quickly." (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

... sure to find the maroons. You, who are not accustomed as they are to a nomadic life, you will be easily found by them, at least if you are not devoured by wildcats or killed by serpents. Such are your only two chances of escaping the efforts they will make ...
— A Romance of the West Indies • Eugene Sue

... honoured you to be faithful, stand fast in that liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free; And in the pursuance of this truth, we are confident, as you have, so you will never cease to study the Peace and neerer conjunction of the Kingdoms, knowing that a threefold cord is not easily broken. Now the Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God even our Father, which hath loved and honoured you, and given you everlasting consolation, & good help through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in ...
— The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland


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