Definition of easily

"easily" in the adverb sense

1. easily, easy

with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily'

"she was easily excited"

"was easily confused"

"he won easily"

"this china breaks very easily"

"success came too easy"

2. easily

without question

"easily the best book she's written"

3. well, easily

indicating high probability in all likelihood

"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"

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Quotations for easily

An old feud is easily renewed. [ Italian Proverb ]

Wood half-coal is easily kindled. [ Proverb ]

A low hedge is easily leaped over. [ Proverb ]

Wood half burnt is easily kindled. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Other men's pains are easily borne. [ Cervantes ]

A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. [ Shakspeare ]

The man who pardons easily courts injury. [ Corneille ]

A thread too fine spun will easily break. [ Proverb ]

Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. [ William Shakespeare ]

We are easily fooled by that which we love. [ Moliere ]

That which is easily done is soon believed. [ Proverb ]

We are easily persuaded of what pleases us. [ Mme. de Fontaines ]

Oppression is more easily borne than insult. [ Junius ]

Dignity increases more easily than it begins. [ Seneca ]

Yes - the same sin that overthrew the angels,
And of all sins most easily besets
Mortals the nearest to the angelic nature:
The vile are only vain; the great are proud. [ Byron ]

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. [ Churchill ]

We believe easily what we fear of what we desire. [ La Fontaine ]

His eloquence is classic in its style,
Not brilliant with explosive coruscations
Of heterogeneous thoughts, at random caught.
And scattered like a shower of shooting stars,
That end in darkness: no; - his noble mind
Is clear, and full, and stately, and serene.
His earnest and undazzled eye he keeps
Fixed on the sun of Truth, and breathes his words
As easily as eagles cleave the air,
And never pauses till the height is won;
And all who listen follow where he leads. [ Mrs. Hale ]

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected. [ Johnson ]

The mouse that hath but one hole, is easily caught. [ Proverb ]

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. [ Swift ]

Nothing is more easily blotted out than a good turn. [ Proverb ]

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly. [ Terence ]

We easily forget our faults, when no body knows them. [ Proverb ]

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch. [ Bruyere ]

He rideth easily enough whom the grace of God carrieth. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand. [ La Bruyere ]

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. [ William Shakespeare ]

We easily hate those whom we have given cause to hate us. [ Mme. de Lussan ]

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected. [ Johnson ]

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes. [ Rochefoucauld ]

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [ Juvenal ]

We easily forget those faults which are known only to ourselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on. [ Dickens ]

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water. [ Auerbach ]

If nobody take notice of our faults, we easily forget them ourselves. [ Proverb ]

We know God easily, provided we do not constrain ourselves to define Him. [ Joubert ]

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [ Juvenal ]

Too great and sudden changes, though for the better, are not easily born. [ Proverb ]

Woman is a charming creature who changes her heart as easily as her gloves. [ Balzac ]

Good men can more easily see through bad men than the latter can the former. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

Imitation is born with us, but what we ought to imitate is not easily found. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if be has but prudence. [ Goldsmith ]

The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Alas! no fleshly pinion will so easily keep pace with the wings of the spirit. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

Great men or men of great gifts you will easily find, but symmetrical men never. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

What a pity that we can not accomplish our salvation as easily as our damnation! [ De Finod ]

The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable. [ Montaigne ]

When the husband is fire, and the wife tow, the devil easily sets all in a flame. [ Proverb ]

The lack of wealth is easily repaired; but the poverty of the soul is irreparable. [ Montaigne ]

An evil at its birth is easily crushed, but it grows and strengthens by endurance. [ Cicero ]

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. [ Chamfort ]

Genius easily hews out its figure from the block, but the sleepless chisel gives it life. [ Willmott ]

Not easily do those attain to distinction whose abilities are cramped by domestic poverty. [ Juv ]

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence. [ Goethe ]

By diligent and laborious examination of things past, we may easily foresee things to come. [ King ]

Strong conceit, like a new principle, carries all easily with it, when yet above common-sense. [ Locke ]

Injuries from friends fret and gall more, and the memory of them is not so easily obliterated. [ Arbuthnot ]

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does. [ William Mountford ]

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal. [ Johnson ]

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, not do they long deceive. [ La Bruyere ]

Philosophy triumphs easily over evils past and evils to come; but, present evils triumph over philosophy. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

No man has a claim to credit upon his own word, when better evidence, if he had it, may be easily produced. [ Johnson ]

We must endure our doom as easily as may be, knowing as we do, that the power of necessity is irresistible. [ Aeschylus ]

There are several ways to speak: to speak well, to speak easily, to speak justly, and to speak at the right moment. [ La Bruyere ]

Long customs are not easily broken: he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain. [ Johnson ]

The pen is a formidable weapon; but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. [ G. D. Prentice ]

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt. [ Horace ]

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure; emotion is easily propagated from the writer to the reader. [ Joubert ]

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber. [ Jane Porter ]

I would fain coin wisdom - mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. [ Joubert ]

Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed. [ Cicero ]

Employ your time in improving yourselves by other men's documents: so shall you come easily by what others have labored hard for. [ Socrates ]

We are ordinarily more easily satisfied with reasons that we have discovered ourselves, than by those which have occurred to others. [ Pascal ]

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them. [ Montaigne ]

A great writer possesses, so to speak, an individual and unchangeable style, which does not permit him easily to preserve the anonymous. [ Voltaire ]

From a common custom of swearing men easily slide into perjury; therefore, if thou wouldst not be perjured, do not use thyself to swear. [ Hierocles ]

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. [ Henry Home ]

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels. [ Addison ]

Psychical pain is more easily borne than physical: and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Literature, as a field for glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; as a means of support, it is the very chance of chances. [ H. Giles ]

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

A good name is like precious ointment; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers. [ Bacon ]

Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking, if you wish to know his real sentiments; for he can command his words more easily than his countenance. [ Chesterfield ]

That is, in a great degree, true of all men, which was said of the Athenians, that they were like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. [ Whately ]

Reputation is in itself only a farthing-candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. [ Lowell ]

The very society of joy redoubles it; so that, whilst it lights upon my friend it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine. [ South ]

Women speak easily of platonic love; but, while they appear to esteem it highly, there is not a single ribbon of their toilette that does not drive platonism from our hearts. [ A. Ricard ]

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more than all, it must be prayed for. [ Thomas Arnold ]

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world. [ Goethe ]

No man is so foolish but he may give another good counsel sometimes, and no man so wise but he may easily err, if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that was taught only by himself had a fool for a master. [ Ben Jonson ]

In my enthusiasm I may have exaggerated the details a little, but you will easily forgive me that fault, since I believe it is the first time I have ever deflected from perpendicular fact on an occasion like this. [ Mark Twain, from The Story Of A Speech ]

Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one. [ Chesterfield ]

As for drinking, I have no rule about that. When the others drink I like to help; otherwise I remain dry, by habit and preference. This dryness does not hurt me, but it could easily hurt you, because you are different. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind. [ Johnson ]

A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. [ Richter ]

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface and always glitter, easily produce vanity; hence women, wits, players, soldiers, are vain, owing to their presence, figure and dress. On the contrary, other excellences, which lie down like gold and are discovered with difficulty, leave their possessors modest and proud. [ Richter ]

The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure employment. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot. [ Montaigne ]

The unaffected of every country nearly resemble each other, and a page of our Confucius and your Tillotson have scarce any material difference. Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please. [ Goldsmith ]

Individuals possessing moderate sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth. [ George Combe ]

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary. [ Colton ]

A clear running brook is the best teacher of style. There is a quick forward movement - but not measured or monotonous movement - while the water is so limpid that everything is seen through the crystal medium. It seems to me that the best style is that which reveals the writer's thoughts so easily, plainly, and musically that the reader becomes engrossed in the thought or story and forgets the writer. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all - but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered. [ Coleridge ]

easily in Scrabble®

The word easily is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters easily:

EASILY
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easily in Words With Friends™

The word easily is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words containing the sequence easily

Words that start with easily (1 word)

Words with easily in them (1 word)

Words that end with easily (4 words)

Word Growth involving easily

Shorter words in easily

as

Longer words containing easily

greasily

queasily

uneasily