different between easily vs mackly

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 Middle English makli, from make (“easy”, adj), from Old Norse makr (“easy”), from Proto-Germanic *makaz (“comfortable, suitable”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, press”), equivalent to make +? -ly. Cognate with Old English macal?c (“convenient”), Scots makly, Middle Low German gemacl?ch, Middle High German gemechl?che (“easily”) (German gemächlich (“gently”)), Dutch gemakkelijk (“easy”).

Adverb

mackly (comparative macklier or more mackly, superlative mackliest or most mackly)

1. (Britain dialectal) Evenly; aptly; easily.
2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Moderately.

Adjective

mackly (comparative macklier or more mackly, superlative mackliest or most mackly)

1. (Britain dialectal) Seemly; comely; good-looking.