Ease
[iːz] or [iz]
Definition
(noun.) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; 'he rose through the ranks with apparent ease'; 'they put it into containers for ease of transportation'; 'the very easiness of the deed held her back'.
(noun.) freedom from constraint or embarrassment; 'I am never at ease with strangers'.
(noun.) a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state; 'a life of luxury and ease'; 'he had all the material comforts of this world'.
(verb.) move gently or carefully; 'He eased himself into the chair'.
Typist: Theodore--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.
(n.) Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body.
(n.) Freedom from care, solicitude, or anything that annoys or disquiets; tranquillity; peace; comfort; security; as, ease of mind.
(n.) Freedom from constraint, formality, difficulty, embarrassment, etc.; facility; liberty; naturalness; -- said of manner, style, etc.; as, ease of style, of behavior, of address.
(n.) To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquility to; -- often with of; as, to ease of pain; ease the body or mind.
(n.) To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate.
(n.) To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery.
(n.) To entertain; to furnish with accommodations.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Rest, repose, quiescence.[2]. Quiet, quietude, quietness, tranquillity, peace, content, contentment.[3]. Facility, easiness, readiness.
v. a. [1]. Relieve, disburden, disencumber, free from pressure or restraint.[2]. Alleviate, allay, assuage, appease, mitigate, soothe, pacify, quiet, still, abate.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Enjoyment, comfort, rest, repose, tranquility, refreshment, relief, quiet,contentment, satisfaction, {[favx'lity]?}, readiness
ANT:Trouble, annoyance, vexation, disquiet, difficulty, awkwardness
Editor: Milton
Definition
n. freedom from pain or disturbance: rest from work: quiet: freedom from difficulty: naturalness.—v.t. to free from pain trouble or anxiety: to relieve: to calm.—adj. Ease′ful ease-giving: quiet fit for rest.—n. Ease′ment relief: assistance: support: gratification.—adv. Eas′ily.—n. Eas′iness.—adj. Eas′y at ease: free from pain: tranquil: unconstrained: giving ease: not difficult: yielding: not straitened (in circumstances): not tight: not strict as in 'easy virtue.'—interj. Easy! a command to lower or to go gently to stop rowing &c.—n. Eas′y-chair an arm-chair for ease or rest.—adj. Eas′y-gō′ing good-natured: indolent.—Ease one's self to relieve nature.—Chapel of ease (see Chapel); Free and easy (see Free).—Honours easy when the honours are evenly divided at whist: Ill at ease uncomfortable; Stand at ease used of soldiers when freed from 'attention;' Take it easy to be quite unconcerned: to be in no hurry; Take one's ease to make one's self comfortable.
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Examples
- Her perpetual study was to relieve us from labour and to spread ease and even elegance over our altered mode of life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She supposed she had a right to alter at her ease. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Pride, old fellow, pride,' replied Jingle, quite at his ease. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It is as well I should ease my mind before I die: what we think little of in health, burdens us at such an hour as the present is to me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It cannot promote health nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- When I could cry no more, I began to think; and then the oppression on my breast was heaviest, and my grief a dull pain that there was no ease for. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The clatter was bad, but I could read it with fair ease. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I should soon be eased of it, if I did. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On the 2d of March, however, I learned of Sherman's success, which eased my mind very much. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I eased up rowing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He knew the wall just below that was too steep for any one to climb but below it eased and some one might have circled up above. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But having eased her conscience by saying these words, she was not sorry that they were not heard. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Coming into Canterbury, I loitered through the old streets with a sober pleasure that calmed my spirits, and eased my heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But the old moralist eased him by saying serenely: Well, well, young men will be young men. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Listen, said Tarzan, easing up a trifle, but not releasing his hold. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But Mr. Gladstone was no patient mechanic set upon easing and righting the clumsy injuries of those stupid adjustments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- While doing it, too, with the purpose of easing and serving her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This eases the afflicted heart, he said. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That eases the strain. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Well, I'm wery glad I've seen the 'rig'nal, 'cos it's a gratifyin' sort o' thing, and eases vun's mind so much. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Typist: Naomi