Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being accomplished or acquired with ease; posing no difficulty.
- adjective Likely to happen by accident or without intention.
- adjective Requiring or exhibiting little effort or endeavor; undemanding.
- adjective Free from worry, anxiety, trouble, or pain.
- adjective Affording comfort or relief; soothing.
- adjective Prosperous; well-off.
- adjective Causing little hardship or distress.
- adjective Socially at ease.
- adjective Relaxed in attitude; easygoing.
- adjective Not strict or severe; lenient.
- adjective Readily exploited, imposed on, or tricked.
- adjective Not hurried or forced; moderate.
- adjective Light; gentle.
- adjective Not steep or abrupt; gradual.
- adjective Less in demand and therefore readily obtainable.
- adjective Plentiful and therefore at low interest rates.
- adjective Promiscuous; loose.
- adverb Without haste or agitation.
- adverb With little effort; easily.
- adverb In a restrained or moderate manner.
- adverb Without much hardship or cost.
- idiom (easy as pie) Capable of being accomplished or done with no difficulty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Easily.
- Having ease.
- Free from want or from solicitude as to the means of living; affording a competence without toil; comfortable: as, easy circumstances; an easy fortune.
- Not difficult; not wearisome; giving or requiring no great labor or effort; presenting no great obstacles; not burdensome: as, an easy task; an easy question; an easy road.
- Giving no pain, shock, or discomfort: as, an easy posture; an easy carriage; an easy trot.
- Moderate; not pressing or straining; not exacting; indulgent: as, a ship under easy sail; an easy master.
- Readily yielding; not difficult of persuasion; compliant; not strict: as, a woman of easy virtue.
- Not constrained; not stiff, formal, or harsh; facile; natural: as, easy manners; an easy address; an easy style of writing.
- Easeful; self-indulgent.
- Light; sparing; frugal.
- Indifferent; of rather poor quality.
- In com., not straitened or restricted, or difficult to obtain or manage: opposed to tight: as, the money-market is easy (that is, loans may be easily procured).
- Synonyms Untroubled, contented, satisfied.
- Pliant, complaisant, accommodating.
- Unconstrained, graceful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint.
- adjective Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet.
- adjective Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil.
- adjective Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth
- adjective Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest.
- adjective Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable
- adjective Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious
- adjective Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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…And that is that it will be easy, *easy*, to sabotage a program this unpopular, once it passes.
The Broken Political Equation - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState 2009
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I *know* it's easy to love California and not as *easy* when it comes to loving Michigan.
Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: My poor state Kate 2008
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Use to be so easy, I never even tried/Yeah, use to be so easy
ugotsoul Diary Entry ugotsoul 2002
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"There -- easy now -- _easy_" as she threatened to capsize this curious basin.
The Littlest Rebel Edward Henry Peple 1896
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With a headlamp as his only light, Maslyn unseals an environmental door to reveal what he calls an easy entrance tunnel - half a meter wide - the size of a dinner platter.
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WHITTLE: I tell people, after you have done all your homework, all of the, what I call the easy stuff, the stuff that any do-it - yourselfer can do, get an energy audit.
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And Allan, it looks like if this northern little jog continues, you may be on the south side of the side of the eye, which we call the easy side.
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Saavik asked, coming up behind him, her expression easy.
STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007
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Saavik asked, coming up behind him, her expression easy.
STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007
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Saavik asked, coming up behind him, her expression easy.
STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007
Prolagus commented on the word easy
An easy man: a man you won't have problem with
An easy woman: a trollop.
(see my list)
June 13, 2008
oroboros commented on the word easy
EASY
EAST
HAST
HART
HARD
November 4, 2008
gangerh commented on the word easy
Everyone wants stuff that's easy. We want things to be easy to use, we want things to be easier to achieve, we want everything easy. If your product or service makes peoples' lives easier, make sure you tell them.
'15 words that will make you money'
July 2, 2009