easily

avverbio

1. 1

   Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.

   Eftsoones she causd him vp to be conuayd, / And of his armes despoyled easily […]

   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.

2. 2

   Without difficulty.

   Individuals without a family network are easily controlled.

   He could have easily phoned and told us he'd be late.

   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.

   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.

3. 3

   Absolutely, without question.

   This is easily the best meal I have eaten.

4. 4

   More quickly or likely than is usual or expected.

   not easily offended

   I get distracted very easily.

Forme

comparativo

easilier, more easily

superlativo

easiliest, most easily