easilyeas‧i‧ly /ˈiːzəli/ ●●● S2 W1 adverb 
They won quite easily. We found the house easily enough.easily accessible/available etc The castle is easily accessible by road.easily understood/identified etc It’s easily recognised by its bright blue tail feathers.2could/can/might easily used to say that something is possible or is very likely to happen: The first signs of the disease can easily be overlooked. Gambling can all too easily become an addiction (=used to say that something bad is very possible).3easily the best/biggest etc definitely the best etc: She is easily the most intelligent person in the class.4in a relaxed way: His son grinned easily back at him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A burglar could easily climb in through that window.
- He is easily the highest paid player in baseball.
- I'll easily finish the report by Friday.
- Lizzie and Jane are so alike that they're easily mistaken for each other.
- She smiled easily when I asked about her hometown.
- The bike can easily be assembled in thirty minutes.
- These plates are easily damaged, so please be careful with them.
- When I went to college, I made friends very easily.
- As with many gifted people, a moment came when Fanshawe was no longer satisfied with doing what came easily to him.
- Before she had taken him over he must have written too easily.
- But the balance is easily adjustable with any Dolby Pro Logic receiver.
- It can just as easily fall back into anti-feminism.
- It is a claim not to be easily dismissed.
- Some of the hilltops were easily eight hundred feet above the valleys.
- You could easily categorise your addresses into five sections.
Longman Language Activatorwhen someone can do something easily
· A burglar could easily climb in through that window.· When I went to college, I made friends very easily.easily recognized/damaged/done etc (=when something can be recognized, damaged etc easily) · These plates are easily damaged, so please be careful with them.· Lizzie and Jane are so alike that they're easily mistaken for each other.
something that is effortless is done in a way that makes it seem very easy, although in fact it is very skilful: · The way she dances makes it seem so effortless.· Other musicians were amazed by Parker's effortless improvisational skill.
if something comes naturally to you, you seem to have a natural ability to do it, so that you can do it well without having to try hard: · Her family are all actors, so it probably comes naturally.come naturally to: · Speaking in public seems to come quite naturally to her.· Looking after babies doesn't come naturally to all new mothers.
to be able to do something very easily, especially because you have done it so many times before: · He's a really good mechanic -- he could change a tyre standing on his head.· Don't worry. I've driven to the Bronx so many times, I could do it standing on my head.
to think that something is a very easy and normal thing to do, although most people think it is difficult and unusual: · Emily thinks nothing of preparing a meal for twenty people.· Before cars were invented, people thought nothing of walking six miles to work.
informal to win or succeed in something easily: · McKenzie breezed the first three rounds of the tournament.· She's likely to breeze through this game, but the next might not be so easy.
easily offended · Be careful what you say to Jenny; she's oversensitive and easily offended.be/get easily offended by · Barry gets easily offended by comments about his parents' divorce.
too easily offended, especially so that people are afraid to talk to you, or offer advice: · Some authors get very touchy if you make even the slightest alteration to their work.· Why are you so touchy today?touchy about: · He's a great manager, but he is very touchy about his lack of qualifications.
very easily offended by a particular thing: · Paul is too sensitive for this job. He can't take even the smallest criticism.sensitive about: · He's sensitive about his bad teeth, so try not to look at them.· My children are very sensitive about being treated in a patronising way.
someone who is easily offended by anything that is rude or connected with sex, especially in a way that other people think is unnecessary: · Sarah's no prude, but she thought some of the sex scenes were quite shocking.
someone who is over-sensitive gets offended and upset very easily, because they always think other people are criticizing them, making fun of them etc: · It's not unusual for artists to be over-sensitive about their work.· Of course he wasn't saying you were overweight - you're just being over-sensitive.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY We found the house easily enough. The castle is easily accessible by road. It’s easily recognised by its bright blue tail feathers. Gambling can all too easily become an addiction (=used to say that something bad is very possible).COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES There is a church which is easily accessible from my home. Computers should be made readily accessible to teachers and pupils. A faulty connection could easily (=would be likely to) cause a fire. The cheese is easily distinguishable by its colour. You shouldn’t give up so easily. He’s not a bad boy. He’s just easily led (=it is easy for other people to persuade him to do things that he should not do). One of the guards might easily panic and shoot someone (=it is likely). A recent study showed that gardening is easily the most popular activity among the over 50s. radio listeners who are easily offended He was fairly easily persuaded.
We found the house easily enough. The castle is easily accessible by road. It’s easily recognised by its bright blue tail feathers. Gambling can all too easily become an addiction (=used to say that something bad is very possible). There is a church which is easily accessible from my home. Computers should be made readily accessible to teachers and pupils. (=easy to get)· The material used was cheap and readily available.
· Jason easily beats me at chess every time we play.
· The series was easily the best TV drama this year.
· Teenagers are easily bored in the holidays.
· Make sure the injured person can breathe easily.
· The exam was tough but she coped easily.
A faulty connection could easily (=would be likely to) cause a fire. (=without much thought)· This is a question that cannot be dismissed lightly.
The cheese is easily distinguishable by its colour. You shouldn’t give up so easily.· I can easily imagine how frightening the accident must have been.
He’s not a bad boy. He’s just easily led (=it is easy for other people to persuade him to do things that he should not do). (=give someone a less serious punishment than they deserve) I think young criminals are let off far too lightly.
I think young criminals are let off far too lightly. One of the guards might easily panic and shoot someone (=it is likely). A recent study showed that gardening is easily the most popular activity among the over 50s. radio listeners who are easily offended He was fairly easily persuaded.· By July 26, Mercury should be easily visible in the evening sky.
· Chavez won the election easily.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· The Shoctector has an easily accessible Test/Reset button to give you additional peace of mind each time you use it.· Stax in Memphis was initially white-owned, easily accessible to outsiders, filled with leaders of all kinds.· Sharing can be through meetings and conferences, but a written report is obviously more easily accessible to others.· And even there when I tugged at lashings which were easily accessible, they too snapped.· It is all fun and all the venues are easily accessible.· This complementary pair of colors is easily accessible in cyclamen, poinsettias and berrying plants.· There should be a proper waiting room, with chairs, magazines to read and cloakroom facilities easily accessible.· Wraps growing popularity makes them easily accessible.
· Information on services easily available. 9.· And opportunities to bet on the stock market have become far more easily available.· It made the annual holiday more easily available to millions.· When they become rich and prominent, they find women easily available.· Clearly, this must be the case so long as it remains the only easily available platform for interactive multimedia.· Acceptable use policies of non-ISPs are published and are usually easily available in the network information service centers of the target network.· If you don't know the frequency of services and current fares make sure that this information is easily available.· The I-way makes this practice more affordable and easily available to a number of small firms.
VERB· Streetwise keeps students' motivation strong ... Teenage students at intermediate level can easily become bored and frustrated.· One can easily become disenchanted with over-professionalized people who are undoubtedly unworthy when subjected to the judgment of more reflective scholars.· Constant activity can easily become an ineffectual nervous twitch.· The meat can easily become dry and stringy although, when cooked properly, they are extremely flavorful.· Relatives need help with grieving, for past relationships in the family can easily become crystallised at death.· And we need to warn them that the words they are using can very easily become fighting words.· They can easily become workaholics, name droppers, gossips and braggarts.· There is, in fact, so much to see here that a traveler can easily become overwhelmed.
· Act 2, Scene 4 Comment Isabella can very easily come across as a prig.· Though I hardly seemed qualified to write a book about a twenty-year marriage, the novel came easily.· Basil was not a great public speaker but what came through was all the more effective because it had not come easily.· Revision comes easily to young children.· She watched as his eyes fell to her mouth and knew what could so easily come next.· Such calculations will never come easily.· Effort and application were not needed in the first instance and did not come easily when the need arose.· As with many gifted people, a moment came when Fanshawe was no longer satisfied with doing what came easily to him.
· It is in a villa which you will easily find because it is near the river.· References to glossolalia are to be found easily.· Anne knew Nina could easily find a place to kill herself in private.· Post-job employees are going to need a much more flexible organization to work in than they can easily find today.· In New York, the board could easily find allies.· Most will easily find something to please the palate at a moderate price.· Certainly they could easily find themselves short of energy amid plenty.· Improved form-filling software lets you easily find lines in a form.
· It is usually simplest if a washing machine can go next to the sink, but it can easily fit in other places.· But a little beef now and then can easily fit in a well-balanced diet.· Yet, overlapping is inevitable whenever risk categories fit easily into more than one compartment.· Our own children have not seen much evidence that women can easily fit a career around a marriage and motherhood.· They housed children who could not find foster parents or who were too old to fit easily into a new family environment.· Teacher Song, a slender man, fit easily into the crawl space.· Range Rover diffs will fit easily but, with a worn engine, will probably make the consumption worse than it is.· They may seem a lot, but in fact they fit easily into a single bag.
· The style was international, eclectic, easily identified, but almost impossible to define.· A chimpanzee is an easy recipient for human projections since humans can easily identify with the emotional expressions of chimpanzees.· Although section area and orientation differed among the tissue blocks, the epithelium and lamina propria were easily identified.· The upper level was diagnosed by the columnar-squamous epithelial border, which was always easily identified.· However it is easily identified by the large black blotch that covers a large proportion of its upper body and dorsal fin.· Of course, I am more easily identified and more distinctive, if not distinguished, than most authors.· Many potential purchasers can be easily identified with minimum cost using research.· This society seemed self-contained; those who felt exploited could easily identify the enemy - the landlord or money lender.
· It could only too easily lead to acquiescence in the evil done by the powers of this world.· The talented people who make up Great Groups are not easily led.· The arrival of a bailiff can easily lead to confrontation, and most people don't know their rights.· We are so easily led to pernicious solutions.· Often clients of licensed dealers who were genuinely interested in options would be easily led into warrants.· This can easily lead to the impression that it is a scholarly work of only archival interest.· This double area of control can easily lead to the blurring of the job surveyor's responsibilities.· But combinations of other controls which are viewed benignly may very easily lead to similar effects.
· Departments, moreover, are not easily moved in new directions by the outsiders that presidents set over them.· By their nature, atoms can not be easily moved, changed or copied.· Solid, rock like, you don't move easily and you take things slowly but surely.· His community orientation varies from small communities to regional and national units, and he moves easily from one to another.· Both wheels move easily, their large diameter giving plenty of turning moment.· Up ahead the two live bears moved easily in the dusk.· Spider riders can move easily through woods and forests, scuttling over the treetops and through the dense foliage.· And students would be allowed to move easily among career areas.
· It is easily reached by car, train or boat.· Some like Las Fuentes were easily reached and took advantage of previous ventures.· In this procedure part of a gene from the target organism is amplified many millions of times to reach easily detectable levels.· Both these and the other attractions can be easily reached from our bases in Kissimmee and Orlando.· So when you fit them, make sure they can be reached easily.· Can the taps be easily reached?· Fuschl is the closest of all our resorts to Salzburg, which is easily reached by a regular bus service.
· Within these two sentences, the situation is easily understood and explained.· If this problem were easily understood or amenable to fast solutions, there would be few work-inhibited students.· Bosses still had to be bosses when the occasion required but that was understood easily and early.· What is happening is most easily understood in terms of the wave picture of light.· From a wave point of view this is easily understood.· Meteor Crater is easily understood as the result of a surface impact of a body bearing about fifteen megatons of energy.· Reality is sometimes too complex to understand easily.· The modern trial is a contest in which justice is defined in easily understood, monetary terms-dollars.
· Although this wins easily, 29 e3! is considerably more murderous.· After all, President Reagan easily won support for his big tax cut in 1981 from a Democratic-controlled Congress.· Starting at 14-1 and not expected to be fully fit after his long lay-off, he won easily.· Martin Kennelly won easily, ending fourteen years of steady employment for Ed Kelly.· Whitney easily won the summer election in 1908, and Beck was returned with a huge majority.· If only more people could meet him and see how nice he is, say his managers, we would win easily.· Johnson easily won the 400, then came back three days later to obliterate the record in the 200.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► somebody can breathe easy/easily
- A high-resolution image, by contrast, could easily run as large as 15 million to 20 million bytes.
- A single mutational step can easily be reversed.
- But a small error in the procedure could easily leave her inoperable, or at least changed beyond recognition.
- Governments can easily guarantee their employees a job, without guaranteeing the job they currently hold.
- If you are writing on a complex topic a reader can easily become confused.
- This was his hobby, sketching vertical monstrosities, though he might easily have been a spy.
- Yet the world champion is so unpredictably gifted that one on-song display could easily enable her to sweep aside the opposition.
- Young minds can easily assimilate and embrace all kinds of musical styles.
- Aluminium benching is easily the best, as it virtually lasts for ever and is easily cleaned.
- He's easily the best military brain in the country.
- It's easily the best Fermanagh side I've played on.
- It gave easily the best value.
- Johnny Hero played the between set music - again proving that he hosts easily the best disco in town.
- Natural gas forms easily the biggest world reserve of methane-rich fuel.
- The greens were easily the best part of the dish.
- The pension is easily the biggest single cash benefit.
- Acting has always come naturally to her.
- Change doesn't always come easily.
- For many of us, communicating openly and sympathetically does not come naturally.
- For many students, the decision to study science came naturally because of family interests.
- Realism, though humanly exacting, is technically what comes naturally.
- Swimming comes naturally to a fish.
- The role doesn't come naturally to either Bush or Gore.
- Though I hardly seemed qualified to write a book about a twenty-year marriage, the novel came easily.
- Whether you are graced appears to be at least partly a matter of temperament, Fowers notes: It comes naturally.
- You will probably find that this comes naturally and that you are happier and more confident than you thought you would be.
- Being a police officer isn't a job for someone who scares easily.
- I'll go down and see what that noise was. I don't scare easily you know.
- I don't think I scare easily, but I sure as hell scared myself that weekend.
- When Glass bought his house, the area where he lives was full of crack dealers so he does not scare easily.
- Certainly, such views as these do not sit comfortably with managerialism and are equally at odds with restricted professionality.
- He had never before been accused of stealing and it did not sit well with him.
- One might think a hockey fan would not sit easily at a sewing machine piecing together patches for a quilt.
- The adornment, thought Eloise smugly, would not sit well amidst so much blubber.
- The closures, which began late last month, does not sit well with many of the regulars.
- The populist vision of a peasant landholding democracy does not sit easily with alternative visions of women's rights.
- The volatility and their non-guaranteed status do not sit comfortably with the official line linking the two benefits.
- This conviction did not sit well either with regimental soldiering or with Whitehall.
WORD FAMILYnouneaseuneaseeasinessuneasinessadverbeasilyuneasilyeasyadjectiveeasyuneasyverbease
1without problems or difficulties: They won quite easily. We found the house easily enough.easily accessible/available etc The castle is easily accessible by road.easily understood/identified etc It’s easily recognised by its bright blue tail feathers.2could/can/might easily used to say that something is possible or is very likely to happen: The first signs of the disease can easily be overlooked. Gambling can all too easily become an addiction (=used to say that something bad is very possible).3easily the best/biggest etc definitely the best etc: She is easily the most intelligent person in the class.4in a relaxed way: His son grinned easily back at him.