easily
/ˈi.zɪ.li/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.91 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.
adv
Without difficulty.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: esiliche
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈi.zɪ.li/
- British English: /ˈiː.zɪ.li/