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Easily vs Quickly - What's the difference?

easily | quickly |

As adverbs the difference between easily and quickly

is that easily is comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety while quickly is rapidly; with speed; fast.

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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    quickly

    English

    Adverb

    (quicker)
  • rapidly; with speed; fast
  • Very soon
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  • , year=2011 , date=November 3 , author=Chris Bevan , title=Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
    Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natcho's rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.}}
    If we go this way, we'll get there quickly .

    Usage notes

    * Although the comparative and superlative one-word forms exist and are in use, the two-word forms are more common.

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