easily Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily')
    easy.
    • she was easily excited
    • was easily confused
    • he won easily
    • this china breaks very easily
    • success came too easy
  2. adverb without question
    • easily the best book she's written
  3. adverb indicating high probability; in all likelihood
    well.
    • I might well do it
    • a mistake that could easily have ended in disaster
    • you may well need your umbrella
    • he could equally well be trying to deceive us

WordNet

Eas"i*ly adverb
Etymology
From Easy.
Definitions
  1. With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.
  2. Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily. Sir W. Temple.
  3. Readily; without reluctance; willingly.
    Not soon provoked, she easily forgives. Prior.
  4. Smoothly; quietly; gently; gracefully; without umult or discord.
  5. Without shaking or jolting; commodiously; as, a carriage moves easily.

Webster 1913