easily
- adverb
- /ˈiːzɪli/
- She easily outperformed her competitors in the race.
- easily recognizable
- easily discerned
- easily visible
Cyril gone like that easily in my opinion.
- Cyril gone like that easily in my opinion.
Examples
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By contrast, each of the seventy-one lower court judges on the ballot was easily reelected.
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Some goals were not as easily articulated as those calling for students' rights or racial justice.
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At first it seemed the French would easily put down the revolt.
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His 2009 work The Idea of Justice argues that social justice cannot be easily defined.
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In time, his victories could not easily be counted.
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Broken down into simple levels of listening, ensemble skills can become transparent and easily understood.
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The first sign that the old solidarity would not be so easily revived came in Afghanistan.
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In a country like Paraguay, such a move could have easily spelled political disaster.
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Hand washing is such a basic health issue and is also an easily implemented change to daily classroom routines.
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As Riis recognized, attempts to better others can easily prove ineffectual and even harmful.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
Completely and without any doubt
In a way that is easy to see or understand
In a way that leaves no doubt
Without any doubt
It is clear from facts or signs
Without any doubt
To be completely sure and have no doubt
In a clear and obvious way that is easy to understand
In a clear way that leaves no doubt
In a strong, definite way that shows no doubt
In a clear way that leaves no doubt
In a clear way that leaves no doubt
In a firm way that ends doubt and settles the matter
In a way that proves something and leaves no doubt
Without any doubt
Without any doubt and with confidence
In a very clear way that people cannot mistake
Says that something is certainly true
In a way that is clearly true and cannot be doubted
Clearly and without doubt
In a way that shows there is no doubt
Clearly true and cannot be denied
It is clearly true and cannot be doubted
Clearly true and cannot be doubted
In a way that cannot be blamed or criticized
Clearly and without any doubt
Very likely and without any doubt
Antonyms
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Easily comes from easy, which originally meant 'at ease' or 'comfortable'. That's why saying someone won easily means they were so 'comfortable' that their victory was clear and without doubt.