easily

CEFRA2

/ˈiː.zɪ.li/

adverb

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01
adverb
Without difficulty or much effort.
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adverb
Extra detail
Absolutely, without question.

Examples

A small forest fire can easily spread and quickly become a great conflagration.
I am a flawed person, but these are flaws that can easily be fixed.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 2

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adverb

Extra meanings

Without difficulty.
Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.
More quickly or likely than is usual or expected.

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In context

The museum is easily accessible by car.
He could have easily phoned and told us he'd be late.
Individuals without a family network are easily controlled.

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Eftsoones she causd him vp to be conuayd, / And of his armes despoyled easily […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date.
1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis[…]interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
For instance, if the girl character is getting rescued by a boy, we can tell our girls the story could easily have been changed so the girl is doing the rescuing.
2014 January 31, Kelly Wallace, “Pink, princess-y and sexy too soon”, in CNN

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Origin

adverb

From Middle English esiliche, equivalent to easy + -ly.

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adverb

She could blank solve the complex puzzle in just five minutes.