swimmingly

[ swim-ing-lee ]
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adverb
  1. without difficulty; with great success; effortlessly: She passed the exam swimmingly.

Origin of swimmingly

1
1615–25; swimming (in sense “progressing smoothly”) + -ly

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British Dictionary definitions for swimmingly

swimmingly

/ (ˈswɪmɪŋlɪ) /


adverb
  1. successfully, effortlessly, or well (esp in the phrase go swimmingly)

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