easy

[easĀ·y]

The adjective easy can describe anything that comes without too much effort, like your baseball team's easy win, or your dad's easy recipe for nachos.

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At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint; as: (a) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy. (b) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind. (c) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.

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plentiful and therefore at low interest rates; easy to come by; "easy money"

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less in demand and therefore readily obtainable; "commodities are easy this quarter"

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casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"

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affording comfort; "soft light that was easy on the eyes"

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not strict; "an easy teacher"; "easy standards"; "lenient rules"

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Adjective
posing no difficulty; requiring little effort; "an easy job"; "an easy problem"; "an easy victory"; "the house is easy to heat"; "satisfied with easy answers"; "took the easy way out of his dilemma"

Adjective
free from worry or anxiety; "knowing that I had done my best, my mind was easy"; "an easy good-natured manner"; "by the time the child faced the actual problem of reading she was familiar and at ease with all the elements words"

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performing adroitly and without effort; "her easy grace"; "a facile hand"

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marked by moderate steepness; "an easy climb"; "a gentle slope"

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readily exploited or tricked; "an easy mark"; "an easy victim"

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not harsh; causing little distress; "an easy penalty"

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having little impact; "an easy pat on the shoulder"; "gentle rain"; "a gentle breeze"; "a soft (or light) tapping at the window"

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not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace"

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affording pleasure; "easy good looks"

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in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich; "they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards"; "easy living"; "a prosperous family"; "his family is well-situated financially"; "well-to-do members of the community"

Adverb
with ease (`easy'' is sometimes used informally for `easily''); "she was easily excited"; "was easily confused"; "he won easily"; "this china breaks very easily"; "success came too easy"

Adverb
in a relaxed manner; or without hardship; "just wanted to take it easy" (`soft'' is nonstandard)

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without speed (`slow'' is sometimes used informally for `slowly''); "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; "please go slow so I can see the sights"


v. t.
At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint

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Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy.

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Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind.

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Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.

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Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing.

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Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.

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Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.

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Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.

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Moderate; sparing; frugal.

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Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight.


Easy

Eas"y , a. [Compar. Easier ; superl. Easiest.] [OF. aisi'82, F. ais'82, prop. p. p. of OF. aisier. See Ease, v. t.] 1. At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint; as: (a) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy. (b) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind. (c) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style. "The easy vigor of a line." Pope. 2. Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing. "Easy ways to die." Shak. 3. Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.
It were an easy leap.
4. Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion. 5. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.
He gained their easy hearts.
He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
6. Moderate; sparing; frugal. [Obs.] Chaucer. 7. (Com.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight. Honors are easy (Card Playing), said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points. Syn. -- Quiet; comfortable; manageable; tranquil; calm; facile; unconcerned.

At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint; as: (a) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy. (b) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind. (c) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.

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Usage Examples

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!

All the times being like, 'Who rented this car and why are we going to this place?' You take the easy route and go, 'Oh, thanks for the champagne. I'll have another.'

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

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