READILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does readily mean? 

• READILY (adverb)
  The adverb READILY has 2 senses:

1. without much difficulty

2. in a punctual manner

  Familiarity information: READILY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• READILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without much difficulty

Context example:

these snakes can be identified readily

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a punctual manner

Synonyms:

promptly; pronto; readily

Context example:

he did his homework promptly

 Context examples 

I can readily understand, she began, that this morning’s affair was largely an accident; but I have been talking with Mr. Haskins.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I can much more readily enter into the temptation of getting away from Miss Bates, than I can believe in the triumph of Miss Fairfax's mind over Mrs. Elton.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The granules in the cell stain readily with chromium and silver salts without pretreatment with a reducing agent.

(Argentaffin Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

A colorless liquid that readily dissolves many chemicals and penetrates animal and plant tissues.

(Dimethyl sulfoxide, NCI Dictionary)

There had been recent examples of travelers arriving from the unknown with certain tales which had been too readily accepted.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This lock of hair, which now he can so readily give up, was begged of me with the most earnest supplication.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She assented readily, so readily that I saw again the hand of Nature fighting for life.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Best used on molecules which are charged in solution or readily accept a charge.

(Electrospray Ionization, NCI Thesaurus)

How well she walks! and how readily she falls in with the inclination of others! joining them the moment she is asked.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It would have surprised Anne if Louisa could have readily answered such a speech: words of such interest, spoken with such serious warmth!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)