different between easily vs effortlessly

English

Etymology

From Middle English esiliche, equivalent to easy +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i?z?li/
• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?i?.z?.li?/, /?i?.z?.li?/

Adverb

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

1. Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.
2. Without difficulty.

   • 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.
3. (colloquial, not comparable) Absolutely, without question.

Translations

Anagrams

• Yalies

Middle English

Adverb

easily

1. Alternative form of esiliche

English

Etymology

effortless +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ef.?t.l?s.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ef.?t.l?s.li/

Adverb

effortlessly (comparative more effortlessly, superlative most effortlessly)

1. Without effort; without difficulty or struggle.

   She hoisted the child effortlessly and plopped him in bed.

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