Easy
['iːzɪ] or ['izi]
Definition
(adj.) obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally; 'easy money' .
(adj.) less in demand and therefore readily obtainable; 'commodities are easy this quarter' .
(adj.) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; 'her easy virtue'; 'he was told to avoid loose (or light) women'; 'wanton behavior' .
(adj.) affording comfort; 'soft light that was easy on the eyes' .
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) 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 chsild faced the actual problem of reading she was familiar and at ease with all the elements words' .
(adj.) marked by moderate steepness; 'an easy climb'; 'a gentle slope' .
(adj.) having little impact; 'an easy pat on the shoulder'; 'gentle rain'; 'a gentle breeze'; 'a soft (or light) tapping at the window' .
(adj.) not hurried or forced; 'an easy walk around the block'; 'at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace' .
(adj.) affording pleasure; 'easy good looks' .
(adj.) readily exploited or tricked; 'an easy victim'; 'an easy mark' .
(adv.) in a relaxed manner; or without hardship; 'just wanted to take it easy' (`soft' is nonstandard).
Inputed by Logan--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint
(v. t.) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy.
(v. t.) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind.
(v. t.) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.
(v. t.) Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.
(v. t.) Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.
(v. t.) Moderate; sparing; frugal.
(v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight.
Typed by Chloe
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Light, not difficult, not burdensome.[2]. Quiet, tranquil, untroubled, comfortable, contented, satisfied, at rest, at ease, without anxiety, without pain.[3]. Yielding, complying, pliant, facile, submissive, accommodating, complaisant.[4]. Unconstrained, graceful, not formal, not stiff.[5]. Gentle, moderate.[6]. Not straitened (pecuniarily).
Edited by Davy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Quiet, comfortable, manageable, indulgent, facile, lenient, unconstrained,gentle, not_difficult, unconcerned, self-possessed
ANT:Uneasy, disturbed, uncomfortable, difficult, unmanageable, hard, exacting,anxious, awkward, embarrassed
Inputed by Dennis
Examples
- The offered hand--rather large, but beautifully formed--was given to me with the easy, unaffected self-reliance of a highly-bred woman. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was then easy enough to obtain a fairly accurate silhouette, by either outlining the profile or cutting it out from the screen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Now, said she, that this first meeting is over, I feel perfectly easy. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- For the easy expression of public opinion in government is a clue to what services are needed and a test of their success. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He does not flatter women, but he is patient with them, and he seems to be easy in their presence, and to find their company genial. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was easy to see that she was passionately devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was easy to escape, or I should not have got away. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There, within easy reach of the rubber trees, they set up their camp and the actual work of harvesting the rubber crop begins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Then I am easy, said Mr. Garth, taking up his hat. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Into such an assembly of the free and easy our traveller entered. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It would have been an easier task a week ago, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It's easier when you have it said and there is never any point in referring to a son of a bitch by some foreign term. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Yo'll ca' me traitor and that—yo I mean t' say,' addressing Slackbridge, 'but 'tis easier to ca' than mak' out. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Shorter and easier. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- So far as my experience with General Halleck went it was very much easier for him to refuse a favor than to grant one. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Somehow, it would make me easier, I fancy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If Mammy felt the interest in me she ought to, she'd wake easier,--of course, she would. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I think that killing a man with an automatic weapon makes it easier. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But the serrated type will lash easier and more securely. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But you needn't be afraid, Dick; it's easier to get out than get in, and when the yacht arrives we'll not have much difficulty in getting on board. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- In mountainous regions, the topography of the land prevents the elimination of all steep grades, but nevertheless the attempt is always made to follow the easiest grades. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;--the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It is easiest perhaps to describe by contrast. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And with all this, the sweetest tempered person (I allude to Mr. Godfrey)--the simplest and pleasantest and easiest to please--you ever met with. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- You have shown yourself a mighty fighter, and we do not wish to manacle you, so we hold you both in the easiest way that will yet ensure security. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Why was this easiest, simplest work of self-culture always too much for me? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is one of the easiest achievements in life to offend your family when your family want to get rid of you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But to consider the matter a-right, it has no force at all; and it is the easiest matter in the world to account for it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- That is at once the easiest and the most fruitless form of public activity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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