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easely

easely is the obsolete form of easily.

Meaning of easily

Adverb

easily (comparative easilier or more easily, superlative easiliest or most easily)

  1. Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.
    • 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
  2. Without difficulty.
    • Individuals without a family network are easily controlled.
    Synonyms:
    readily, handily
  3. (colloquial, not comparable) Absolutely, without question.
    • This is easily the best meal I have eaten.
  4. More quickly or likely than is usual or expected.
    • not easily offended

Questions about easely

What is easely the obsolete form of?
Easely is the obsolete form of easily.

Words near easely in the dictionary

  1. easeled
  2. easeless
  3. easelessness
  4. easellike
  5. easels
  6. easely
  7. easement
  8. easements
  9. easen
  10. easened
  11. Easenhall

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Adapted from Wiktionary: easely (page history and authors); easily (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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