Meaning & use
handily
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Easily and with little difficulty, often by a wide margin.
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The champion won the match handily, dropping only a few points.
The tool handily solves a problem that used to take hours by hand.
A note on using this word
Handily can describe both an effortless victory and something conveniently useful, both senses tracing back to "handy."
Words with a similar meaning
easilyeffortlessly
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Words with an opposite meaning
narrowly
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