different between easily vs immediately

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

From immediate +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mi?di.?tli/, /??mi?di.?tli/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /??mi?d??tli/, /??mi?d??tli/
• Hyphenation: im?me?di?ate?ly, im?me?diate?ly

Adverb

immediately (not comparable)

1. In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:immediately.

Synonyms

• forthwith, now, tout de suite; see also Thesaurus:immediately

Translations

Conjunction

immediately

1. directly (as soon as), instantly. Indicates that the independent clause describes something that occurs immediately after the dependent clause's referent does.

Synonyms

• as soon as
• directly after, immediately after, right after, etc.