as in easily
without difficulty
the move to our new house was accomplished rather painlessly
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Recent Examples of painlessly
When the patch is adhered to the skin and pressed against it, the needles painlessly pierce only the top layer of the skin, not reaching the nerve endings below.
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New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2025
The investigation revealed that Mitteness had been researching ways to painlessly kill an elderly person, authorities said.
—Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 15 Aug. 2025
New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2025
The investigation revealed that Mitteness had been researching ways to painlessly kill an elderly person, authorities said.
—Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for painlessly
Adverb
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The set comes with seven pumpkins in a variety of shapes and sizes to line up across the mantel, and can easily stand alone or be added to a full display with garlands and candles.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Sep. 2025
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The fleece is plush without being thick, so it can be layered under jackets easily without overheating you.—
Anne Taylor,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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What struck me the most was how effortlessly the hotel manages to be both elevated and comfortable.—
Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
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Her son, maybe six or seven years old, could effortlessly hitch himself up to the top of the park’s lampposts.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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It's got two magnetic rings on one end that attach to the back of your iPhone case smoothly, the leaker says.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
3 Sep. 2025
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Sales figures, customer demographics, transaction histories, and the like flow smoothly through data pipelines.—
Douglas B. Laney,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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This announcement represents a major milestone in the software and hardware needed to efficiently process inference queries, disaggregating inference processing into two workloads with a GPU tailored for each in the case of long-context windows greater than one million tokens.—
Karl Freund,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The electric system is underperforming because utilities and energy companies don’t get rewarded for making the existing system operate more efficiently or adopting new technologies that could render outdated systems obsolete.—
Brian Deese,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Two side handles make removing it from the oven easy, and it can even be carried from the stove to the table for seamless serving.—
Shea Simmons,
Southern Living,
4 Sep. 2025
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And that’s getting off easy, considering 10 wins is likely what AFC teams will need to qualify for the postseason.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Painlessly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/painlessly. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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