readily
/ˈɹɛdɪli/
readily adverb: without unwillingness or hesitation; showing readiness.
Adverb
readily (comparative readilier or more readily, superlative readiliest or most readily)
- Without unwillingness or hesitation; showing readiness.
- The suspect readily answered all questions the police officers asked him.
- Without impediment, easily.
- readily available; readily achievable
- Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.1885, Alexander Wynter Blyth, Poisons, Their Effects and Detection: A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts, volume I, New York: William Wood and Co., page 430
readily meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
readily in Urdu
- فوراً, فی البدیح, جھٹ پٹ, تیزی سے
readily in Bengali
- ইচ্ছাপূর্বক, তত্ক্ষণাৎ
readily in Malayalam
- easily
- എളുപ്പത്തിൽ eḷuppattil
readily in Kannada
- ಕೂಡಲೇ, ತಡಮಾಡದೆ, ಒಡನೆಯೇ, ಮನಃಪೂರ್ವಕವಾಗಿ, ಸ್ವಇಚ್ಛೆಯಿಂದ, ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿ
More languagesFewer languages
- readily in Sanskrit
- अलम् álam
Examples of readily in a sentence
- Light does not pass through water nearly as readily as it passes through air, and in order to function efficiently, an animal that lives in the water must rely on other senses in addition to light.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 28:
- Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily.2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
Forms of readily
| comparative | readilier |
|---|---|
| comparative | more readily |
| superlative | readiliest |
| superlative | most readily |
Origin of readily
From Middle English redily, rediliche. By surface analysis, read(i) + -ly.
Questions about readily
- What does readily mean?
- Readily means without unwillingness or hesitation; showing readiness.
- What is readily in Urdu?
- Readily in Urdu is فوراً, فی البدیح, جھٹ پٹ. See Readily meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use readily in a sentence?
- Light does not pass through water nearly as readily as it passes through air, and in order to function efficiently, an animal that lives in the water must rely on other senses in addition to light.
- What part of speech is readily?
- Readily is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce readily?
- Readily is pronounced /ˈɹɛdɪli/.
Words near readily in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: readily (page history and authors); readily (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); readily (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); readily (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अलम् (Sanskrit) (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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