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Easily vs Weakly - What's the difference?

easily | weakly |

As adverbs the difference between easily and weakly

is that easily is comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety while weakly is with little strength or force.

As an adjective weakly is

frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.

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.
  • *
  • *: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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    weakly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
  • * 1885', I lay in '''weakly case and confined to my bed for four months before I was able to rise and health returned to me. — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18
  • * 1889', I'd always been but ' weakly , / And my baby was just born; / A neighbour minded her by day, / I minded her till morn. — WB Yeats, ‘The Ballad of Moll Magee’
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
  • *:"Oh, a huge crab," Jacob murmured—and begins his journey on weakly legs on the sandy bottom.
  • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With little strength or force