easily

Etymology

From Middle English esiliche, equivalent to easy + -ly.

adv

1. Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.
   Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date. 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593
2. Without difficulty.
   Individuals without a family network are easily controlled.
3. (colloquial, not comparable) Absolutely, without question.
   This is easily the best meal I have eaten.