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Definition of Easily

1. Adverb. With ease ('easy' is sometimes used informally for 'easily'). "Success came too easy"

2. Adverb. Without question. "Easily the best book she's written"

3. Adverb. Indicating high probability; in all likelihood. "He could equally well be trying to deceive us"

Definition of Easily

1. adv. With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.

Definition of Easily

1. Adverb. Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety. ¹

2. Adverb. Without difficulty. ¹

3. Adverb. (colloquial not comparable) Absolutely, without question ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Easily

1. without difficulty [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Easily

easeled easeless easellike easels easely easer easers eases easie easier

easier said than done easies easiest easily (current term) easiness easinesses easing easle easles east-central

east-northeast east-southeast east African cedar east by north east by northeast east by south

Literary usage of Easily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1805)
"God., every one easily allows, tills, eternity; and it is hard to find a reason, why any one should doubt, that he likewise fills immensity. ..."

2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1873)
"reading of Dindorf seems preferable, as more accordant with the brevity of Thucydides, and the full idea may be elicited easily from ..."

3. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"19) of the Old Harbour of Corfu, showing a small island, which certainly strongly suggests a half-submerged vessel and might easily be mistaken for one if ..."

4. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1912)
"... Lepidus, Popilius, and Publius. Antony keeps R, so that Trebonius can easily persuade him to go off R in consultation, about some official matter. ..."

5. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"The gentleman was not so easily satisfied. He had all the disposition to persevere that Sir Thomas could wish him. He had vanity, which strongly inclined ..."

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