• Easily

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /iː.zÉ™.liː/, iː.zɪ.liː/

    Origin

    easy + -ly

    Full definition of easily

    Adverb

    easily

    1. Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.
      • Spenser Faerie Queene, II.xi:Eftsoones she causd him vp to be conuayd,
        And of his armes despoyled easily ....
    2. Without difficulty.
      • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 3, One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis … interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
    3. (colloquial, not comparable) Absolutely, without question.
      This is easily the best meal I have eaten.

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