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easily (iou)



easily adverb. Formerly compared -lier, -liest. ME.
[from EASY adjective + -LY2.]
Comfortably; in a relaxed fashion; without pain or anxiety; self-indulgently. ME.
J. Kosinski Four men entered the room, talking and smiling easily.
With little labour or difficulty. ME.
J. Buchan He would have beaten me easily if the course had been longer. E. Bowen Anna could remember being a child more easily..than she could remember being Portia's age.
Smoothly, freely. LME.
M. Keane She..shut the drawer, then tried it again to see if it slid and ran easily.
Without hurry, gradually; calmly, quietly. obsolete exc. dial. LME.
but easily, only indifferently, only poorly. LME-M16.
With little resistance or reluctance. M17.
Day Lewis The small fatalists accept more easily than most philosophers the knowledge that what is is.
At least; without doubt; by a comfortable margin. colloq. M20.
C. P. Snow She was easily the most attractive woman there.