easily

English

Etymology

easy +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /iː.zə.liː/, iː.zɪ.liː/

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Adverb

easily (comparative more easily, superlative most easily)

1. Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xi:

     Eftsoones she causd him vp to be conuayd, / And of his armes despoyled easily [...].

2. Without difficulty.
3. (colloquial, not comparable) Absolutely, without question
   • This is easily the best meal I have eaten.

Translations

without difficulty

• Armenian: հանգիստ (hy) (hangist), հեշտորեն (hy) (heštoren), հեշտ (hy) (hešt), հեշտությամբ (hy) (heštut’yamb)
• Basque: aise (eu), erraz (eu)
• Bulgarian: лесно (bg) (lesno)
• Catalan: fàcilment (ca)
• Czech: lehce (cs), snadno (cs), jednoduše (cs)
• Dalmatian: fázil
• Dutch: makkelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: facile (eo)
• Finnish: helposti (fi)
• French: facilement (fr)
• Galician: facilmente (gl)

• Hungarian: könnyen (hu)
• Interlingua: facilemente (ia)
• Italian: facilmente (it), agevolmente (it)
• Japanese: -やすい
• Latin: facile (la), faciliter (la)
• Lithuanian: lengvai (lt)
• Occitan: facilament (oc)
• Serbo-Croatian: lako (sh)
• Spanish: fácilmente (es)
• Turkish: kolayca (tr), kolaylıkla (tr)
• Ukrainian: легко (uk) (léhko)

without question

• Armenian: անկասկած (hy) (ankaskaç)
• Bulgarian: безспорно (bg) (bezsporno), несъмнено (bg) (nesǎmneno)
• Finnish: ilman muuta (fi), kiistatta (fi)

• French: facilement (fr)
• Ukrainian: легко (uk) (léhko)

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: mouth · generally · ago · #684: easily · condition · sleep · ex

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