easily
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- adverb
- /ˈiːzɪli/
:
probablemente
- She could easily convince her friends to join the trip.
- easily forgotten
- easily dismissed
And I lost out a lot and I could have easily of given up.
- And I lost out a lot and I could have easily of given up.
- The same could so easily be said of Syria.
- Or this could very easily be an actual weapon.
Examples
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Any rogue nation or faction that desires can easily obtain weapons of this sort.
Academic text (1999) -
You, I mean we, we could easily die out here.
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You know all that could easily be reality.
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You can take this away from me just as easily as I took it from you.
Fiction book (1991) -
I can just as easily ask you to change the pattern of the stars.
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No man throws away wealth and position so easily.
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Now, the sentence could easily be a year's hard labour, by my reckoning.
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But that doesn't mean it will go easily.
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Quantitative assessment is efficient, and results can be expressed in easily understood numerical terms.
Academic text (1999) -
Unlike most other cliffs, necropoli, they are easily accessible today by climbing the vegetation-covered side slopes.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
∞
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Without any doubt
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There is a good chance it will happen
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Without any doubt and with confidence
Antonyms
How Likely
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Easily comes from the word easy, which goes back to an old word meaning 'comfort' or 'at ease'. So when we say something could easily happen, we mean it is 'likely' or can happen with little trouble.