Clearly vs Easy - What's the difference?
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(manner) In a clear manner.
(modal) Without a doubt; obviously.
* {{quote-news
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(degree) To a degree clearly discernible.
Comfortable; at ease.
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, title= Requiring little skill or effort.
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, title= Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
* Alexander Pope
(informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
* Dryden
* Sir Walter Scott
Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
In a relaxed or casual manner
In a manner without strictness or harshness.
Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
Not difficult, not hard. (rfex)
Something that is easy
to easy-oar (stop rowing)
As adverbs the difference between clearly and easy
is that clearly is in a clear manner while easy is in a relaxed or casual manner.As an adjective easy is
comfortable; at ease.As a noun easy is
something that is easy.As a verb easy is
to easy-oar (stop rowing.clearly
English
Adverb
(en-adv)- He enunciated every syllable clearly .''
- Clearly , the judge erred in his opinion.
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- He was clearly wrong on all points but one.
easy
English
Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
- Rich people live in easy circumstances.
- an easy chair
- easy''' manners; an '''easy style
- the easy vigour of a line
- He gained their easy hearts.
- He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
- The market is easy .
