EASILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does easily mean? 

• EASILY (adverb)
  The adverb EASILY has 3 senses:

1. with ease ('easy' is sometimes used informally for 'easily')

2. without question

3. indicating high probability; in all likelihood

  Familiarity information: EASILY used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EASILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With ease ('easy' is sometimes used informally for 'easily')

Synonyms:

easily; easy

Context example:

success came too easy

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Pertainym:

easy (posing no difficulty; requiring little effort)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without question

Context example:

easily the best book she's written

Sense 3

Meaning:

Indicating high probability; in all likelihood

Synonyms:

easily; well

Context example:

he could equally well be trying to deceive us

 Context examples 

We can find out very easily any time we are so minded.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I had his majesty’s permission to step over this wall; and, the space being so wide between that and the palace, I could easily view it on every side.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We can very easily verify it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“That is very true,” replied Elizabeth, “and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Knowing as much as you do, the situation is very easily explained.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Venus expresses her most loving qualities in Pisces, and because Pisces is a water sign like yours, Cancer, you will easily absorb the goodness of Venus and the transiting moon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"They are, indeed," said the Scarecrow, "and I am thankful I am made of straw and cannot be easily damaged. There are worse things in the world than being a Scarecrow."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

No, cried he, that is letting her off too easily: she shall die a much more cruel death; I will eat her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly be.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Indeed he does, and you know how truly; I know how ardent you are in any pursuit you follow, and how easily you can master it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)