Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb In an easy manner; with ease.
- adverb Without question; certainly.
- adverb In all likelihood; well.
- adverb Very quickly or readily.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an easy manner; with ease; without difficulty, pain, labor, anxiety, etc.; smoothly; quietly; tranquilly: as, a task easily performed; an event easily foreseen; to pass life easily; the carriage moves easily.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With ease; without difficulty or much effort
- adverb Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance.
- adverb Readily; without reluctance; willingly.
- adverb Smoothly; quietly; gently; gracefully; without �umult or discord.
- adverb Without shaking or jolting; commodiously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
Comfortably , without discomfort or anxiety. - adverb Without difficulty.
- adverb colloquial, not comparable
Absolutely , without question
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb indicating high probability; in all likelihood
- adverb with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily')
- adverb without question
Etymologies
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Examples
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To like someone is not a term easily employed by Klingons.
Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990
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To like someone is not a term easily employed by Klingons.
Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990
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To like someone is not a term easily employed by Klingons.
Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990
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To like someone is not a term easily employed by Klingons.
Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990
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More importantly, you can now launch the Recycle Bin easily from the Windows Start Menu search box.
How To Launch The Recycle Bin From The Start Menu Search Box | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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This was true of the ancients: “Pregnant women should above all else avoid repletion,” or overeating, declared the second-century physician Galen, who noted that “servant girls and other poor women” are not “stuffed beyond due measure with food,” yet they “reach their term easily, go into labor easily, and bring into the world a large and well-nourished baby.”
Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010
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And everytime I read the English you use when it comes to Hillary it easily translates as: "Unhinged."
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The message was simple enough, the name easily remembered: call Tedesco.
The Houseguest Thomas Berger 2008
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If you can't read the label easily, it is prescription Silver Sulfadiazine Cream.
Glass Studio Safety ~ Prescription Cream for Burns Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2008
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We are told that a fool is born every minute, and, the average man being something of a fool, the label easily catches him.
Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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