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Easily vs Immediately - What's the difference?

easily | immediately |

As adverbs the difference between easily and immediately

is that easily is comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety while immediately is in an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.

As a conjunction immediately is

Indicates that the dependent clause describes something that occurs immediately after the independent clause's referent does.

easily

English

Adverb

(en-adv)
  • Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.
  • *, II.xi:
  • *:Eftsoones she causd him vp to be conuayd, / And of his armes despoyled easily .
  • Without difficulty.
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  • *: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.
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  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis
  • Absolutely, without question.
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    immediately

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.
  • I hope we can begin immediately .
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=November 12 , author= , title=International friendly: England 1-0 Spain , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Spain failed to move through the gears despite exerting control for lengthy spells and a measure of perspective must be applied immediately to the outcome.}}

    Synonyms

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    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • Synonyms

    * as soon as * directly after, after, right after, etc.