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readily

adv
/ˈɹɛdɪli/

Etymology

From Middle English redily, rediliche. By surface analysis, read(i) + -ly.

  1. inherited from redily

Definitions

  1. Without unwillingness or hesitation

    Without unwillingness or hesitation; showing readiness.

    • The suspect readily answered all questions the police officers asked him.

  2. Without impediment, easily.

    • readily available; readily achievable
    • Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.
    • Light does not pass through water nearly as readily as it passes through air, and in order to function efficiently, an animal that lives in the water must rely on other senses in addition to light.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at readily. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at readily. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at readily

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA