easily

English

Etymology

From Middle English esiliche, equivalent to easy +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːzɪli/
• IPA^(key): /ˈiː.zə.liː/, /ˈiː.zɪ.liː/

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Adverb

easily (comparative easilier or more easily, superlative easiliest or most easily)

1. Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

2. Without difficulty.

   Individuals without a family network are easily controlled.

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     Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.

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

   This is easily the best meal I have eaten.

Translations

comfortably

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舒適地／舒适地, 舒适地 (shūshì de)

• Finnish: mukavasti (fi), helposti (fi)
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• Portuguese: tranquilamente
• Russian: свобо́дно (ru) (svobódno), удо́бно (ru) (udóbno)
• Ukrainian: зру́чно (zrúčno)

without difficulty

• Arabic: بِسُهُولَة (bisuhūla)
• Armenian: հանգիստ (hy) (hangist), հեշտորեն (hy) (heštoren), հեշտ (hy) (hešt), հեշտությամբ (hy) (heštutʻyamb)
• Basque: aise (eu), erraz (eu)
• Bulgarian: лесно (bg) (lesno)
• Catalan: fàcilment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 容易地 (róngyì de)

• Cimbrian: dèstar
• Czech: lehce (cs), snadno (cs), jednoduše (cs)
• Dalmatian: fázil
• Dutch: makkelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: facile (eo)
• Finnish: helposti (fi)
• French: facilement (fr)
• Galician: facilmente
• Georgian: ადვილად (advilad), მარტივად (marṭivad), იოლად (iolad)
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• Greek: εύκολα (el) (éfkola)

  Ancient: ῥᾳδίως (rhāidíōs)

• Hungarian: könnyen (hu)
• Interlingua: facilemente
• Italian: facilmente (it), agevolmente (it)
• Japanese: -易い (ja) (-やすい, -yasui), 容易に (ja) (よういに, yōi ni)
• Latin: facile (la), faciliter
• Lithuanian: lengvai
• Norman: aîsîment
• Occitan: facilament
• Portuguese: facilmente (pt)
• Russian: легко́ (ru) (lexkó)
• Serbo-Croatian: lako (sh), лако
• Spanish: fácilmente (es)
• Swedish: lätt (sv)
• Turkish: kolayca (tr), kolaylıkla (tr)
• Ukrainian: ле́гко (léhko)
• White Hmong: yooj yim

without question

• Armenian: անկասկած (hy) (ankaskac)
• Bulgarian: безспорно (bg) (bezsporno), несъмнено (bg) (nesǎmneno)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毫無疑問地／毫无疑问地, 毫无疑问地 (háowú yíwèn de)

• Finnish: ilman muuta, kiistatta
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• French: facilement (fr)
• Norman: aîsîment
• Portuguese: sem dúvida
• Russian: легко́ (ru) (lexkó)
• Ukrainian: ле́гко (léhko)

Anagrams

• Yalies

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Middle English

Adverb

easily

1. Alternative form of esiliche

References

• “esili (adv.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 August 2018.