Easily
['iːzɪlɪ] or ['izəli]
Definition
(adv.) without question; 'easily the best book she's written'.
(adv.) with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily'); 'she was easily excited'; 'was easily confused'; 'he won easily'; 'this china breaks very easily'; 'success came too easy'.
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Definition
(adv.) With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.
(adv.) Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily.
(adv.) Readily; without reluctance; willingly.
(adv.) Smoothly; quietly; gently; gracefully; without /umult or discord.
(adv.) Without shaking or jolting; commodiously; as, a carriage moves easily.
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Examples
- But not so easily did Elinor recover from the alarm into which it had thrown her. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- You will learn very easily. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Andreu Nin will find it easily by asking, if he knows what to ask for. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You will get over any trouble I have caused you, easily enough now. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Nor do I perceive how I can easily be mistaken in this matter. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Nevertheless the idea of Plato is not easily put into practice. Plato. The Republic.
- And indeed, you will not easily find a more difficult study, and not many as difficult. Plato. The Republic.
- You might so easily have made a mistake. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I feel I can easily and naturally make room in my heart for you, as my third and youngest sister. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There was no harm in sending him there you know; for I can easily change my mind when he comes back, if anything which I like better occurs. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The sovereignty of the king is therefore easily understood. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But you may easily carry the help too far, he said, and get over-wrought yourself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Warlike Tribes have been put to flight so easily by civilised armies in modern times that such tribes have been doubted as possessing their boasted or even natural courage. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mrs. John Knightley is easily alarmed, and might be made unhappy about her sister. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The matter can be easily remedied, said the brow-beaten doctor; Mr. Sherlock Holmes can return to London by the morning train. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Not so easily,' returned Miss Wren. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Preserve a certain order; do not attempt to jump from the ground to the gable, but rise gradually from what is simple and easily understood. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The tall English driver came around and looked in, I'll take it very easily, he said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I look forward, my dear, to our meeting easily and without constraint on either side. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- From this quality it is easily conceived why it should be connected with the sense of beauty. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Hold it easily but firmly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Being work, it has to be done; but it's easily enough done. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- For a while, with the brandy, I rowed easily and steadily. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Our out-of-door life easily threw one in my way, and I delicately said that there was a responsibility in encouraging Richard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There was a slight attack on Burnside's and Wright's corps as they moved out of their lines; but it was easily repulsed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Yet, perhaps, more than he seemed to feel it; for he was not a man from whom grief easily wrung tears. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This moment was one of intense interest, the huge bulk gliding as gently and easily forward as if she had been but a small boat. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Yes,' replied Job; 'but these sort of things are not so easily counterfeited, Mr. Weller, and it is a more painful process to get them up. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And yet, in general, nothing can be more easily ascertained. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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