easy - easily

easy - easily
◊ 'easy'
Something that is easy can be done or achieved without effort or difficulty.

Both sides had secured easy victories earlier in the day.

Competitions in the Spectator are never easy.

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The comparative and superlative forms of `easy' are easier and easiest.

This is much easier than it sounds.

This was in many ways the easiest stage.

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You can say that it is easy to do something. For example, instead of saying `Riding a camel is easy', you can say `It is easy to ride a camel'. You can also say `A camel is easy to ride'.

It is easy to be world champions at a game hardly anybody else plays.

It is easy to blame the unrest on political agitation.

The house is easy to keep clean.

Their defences were ridiculously easy to penetrate.

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◊ 'easily'
Easy is not used as an adverb, except in the expressions `go easy', `take it easy', and `easier said than done'. If you want to say that something is done without difficulty, you say that it is done easily.

Put things in a place where you can find them quickly and easily.

Belgium easily beat Mexico 3-0.

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The comparative and superlative forms of easily are more easily and most easily.

Milk is digested more easily when it is skimmed.

These are the foods that are most easily contaminated with poisonous bacteria.

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Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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