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readily

[red-l-ee]

adverb

  1. promptly; quickly; easily.

    The information is readily available.

  2. in a ready manner; willingly.

    He readily agreed to help us.

    Synonyms: , ,


ˈ𲹻徱

/ ˈɛɪɪ /

adverb

  1. promptly; eagerly; willingly

  2. without difficulty or delay; easily or quickly

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • overreadily adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of readily1

First recorded in 1275–1325, readily is from the Middle English word redily; ready, -ly
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"How do we design the urban environment to make them more readily livable to these organisms?"

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Was following her mother’s passion the most readily available way to process a personal loss the director essentially had no memory of?

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Meanwhile, reporters in L.A. are in physical peril as they try to provide vetted facts the administration readily denies.

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But there was an intriguing undertow below all this that wasn’t readily discernible; bear with me for a minute while we work through it.

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Accordingly, for voice hearers with serious psychotic disorders, it might be that their brains struggle to process noisy sensory information that is somehow being corrupted or degraded, thus, they update their expectations less readily.

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