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) Croatian: lako (hr) Dutch: makkelijk (nl) Esperanto: facile (eo) Finnish: helposti (fi) French: facilement (fr) Hungarian: könnyen (hu)

Interlingua: facilemente (ia) Italian: facilmente (it), agevolmente (it) Japanese: -やすい Latin: facile (la), faciliter (la) Lithuanian: lengvai (lt) Spanish: fácilmente (es) Turkish: kolayca (tr), kolaylıkla (tr) Ukrainian: легко (uk) (léhko)

without question

Armenian: անկասկած (hy) (ankaskaç) Bulgarian: безспорно (bg), несъмнено (bg) 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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