handily

Examples

• All

• Roosevelt would have won a fifth term handily had he lived long enough to run in 1948.

  Blog text (19)

• Robert Mugabe's ZANU handily won the election to form the first government in 1980.

  Academic text (1992)

• We had it won handily.

  The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)

• Polls showed him winning the March 2006 election handily, which he did.

  Academic text (2010)

• Old technologies often handily survive the introduction of new ones and sometimes become useful in entirely new ways.

  Academic text (2014)

• Finally, he left the bureaucracy and ran for a seat in the Diet, which he won handily.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, won the county handily with 54 percent of the vote.

  Academic text (2016)

• Menem won reelection in May 1995, handily defeating a badly divided opposition.

  Academic text (1998)

• Against Georgetown, SU won handily on the boards; against Pitt, we lost handily on the boards.

  Blog text (13)

• By ripening in mid-August, these grapes handily fill a gap between the early-ripening Flame Seedless and the late-ripening Crimson Seedless.

  Academic text (2006)

Synonyms

E

easily

vshandily

∞ 1.0

Without much effort

adds a sense of convenience or practical ease

R

readily

vshandily

163 2.3

Without trouble or delay

focuses on convenient manner rather than quick timing

H

hands down

vshandily

• Informal

34 3.2

Very easily and much better than others

simply indicates ease without strong comparison or emphasis

E

effortlessly

vshandily

30 3.1

To do something without needing to try

allows slight exertion or stresses convenience instead

I

in a breeze

vshandily

• Informal

1 3.0

People do it very easily with little effort

is broader, meaning easy or convenient without stressing speed

Antonyms

I

inconveniently

3 5.4

In a way that causes trouble or makes things hard

How Easily

effortlessly

30 3.1

handily

18 3.0

easily

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology