Easily

[EasĀ·i*ly]

Things that happen easily don't require a lot of effort. When your old car starts easily on a very cold morning, you'll breathe a sigh of relief.

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

Adverb
indicating high probability; in all likelihood; "I might well do it"; "a mistake that could easily have ended in disaster"; "you may well need your umbrella"; "he could equally well be trying to deceive us"

Adverb
without question; "easily the best book she''s written"

Adverb
with ease (`easy'' is sometimes used informally for `easily''); "she was easily excited"; "was easily confused"; "he won easily"; "this china breaks very easily"; "success came too easy"


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

adv.
Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily.

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Readily; without reluctance; willingly.

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Smoothly; quietly; gently; gracefully; without /umult or discord.

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Without shaking or jolting; commodiously; as, a carriage moves easily.


Easily

Eas"i*ly , adv. [From Easy.] 1. With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen. 2. Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily. Sir W. Temple. 3. Readily; without reluctance; willingly.
Not soon provoked, she easily forgives.
4. Smoothly; quietly; gently; gracefully; without umult or discord. 5. Without shaking or jolting; commodiously; as, a carriage moves easily.

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

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Usage Examples

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

An educated people can be easily governed.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

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Other Usage Examples

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

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