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- 1 Comfortable; at ease.
"Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night."
- 2 Requiring little skill or effort.
"It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up."
- 3 Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
"Rich people live in easy circumstances, that is, the easy life."
- 4 Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
"easy manners; an easy style"
- 5 Consenting readily to sex. derogatory, informal, usually
"She has a reputation for being easy; they say she slept with half the senior class."
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- 6 Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
"He gain'd their easy hearts."
- 7 Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight. dated
"The market is easy."
- 1 obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally wordnet
- 2 less in demand and therefore readily obtainable wordnet
- 3 casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior wordnet
- 4 affording comfort wordnet
- 5 not strict wordnet
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- 6 posing no difficulty; requiring little effort wordnet
- 7 free from worry or anxiety wordnet
- 8 marked by moderate steepness wordnet
- 9 having little impact wordnet
- 10 not hurried or forced wordnet
- 11 affording pleasure wordnet
- 12 in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich wordnet
- 13 readily exploited or tricked wordnet
- 1 In a relaxed or casual manner.
"After his illness, John decided to take it easy."
- 2 In a manner without strictness or harshness; gently; softly.
"Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm."
- 3 Handily; at the very least.
"This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy."
- 1 with ease (‘easy’ is sometimes used informally for ‘easily’) wordnet
- 2 in a relaxed manner; or without hardship wordnet
- 3 without speed (‘slow’ is sometimes used informally for ‘slowly’) wordnet
- 1 To request deintensification or a halt. informal
- 1 Something that is easy.
"Cooking the sushi was very easy for her."
- 2 radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter E.
- 1 Synonym of easy-oar.
Etymology
From Middle English esy, eesy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Anglo-Norman eisé from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), past participle of aisier (“to put at ease”), from aise (“empty space, elbow room, opportunity”), of uncertain origin. See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, auð-, Icelandic auð (adverb), auð-, all meaning "easy." More at ease, eath.
From Middle English esy, eesy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Anglo-Norman eisé from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), past participle of aisier (“to put at ease”), from aise (“empty space, elbow room, opportunity”), of uncertain origin. See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, auð-, Icelandic auð (adverb), auð-, all meaning "easy." More at ease, eath.
From Middle English esy, eesy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Anglo-Norman eisé from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), past participle of aisier (“to put at ease”), from aise (“empty space, elbow room, opportunity”), of uncertain origin. See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, auð-, Icelandic auð (adverb), auð-, all meaning "easy." More at ease, eath.
From Middle English esy, eesy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Anglo-Norman eisé from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), past participle of aisier (“to put at ease”), from aise (“empty space, elbow room, opportunity”), of uncertain origin. See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, auð-, Icelandic auð (adverb), auð-, all meaning "easy." More at ease, eath.
From Middle English esy, eesy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Anglo-Norman eisé from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), past participle of aisier (“to put at ease”), from aise (“empty space, elbow room, opportunity”), of uncertain origin. See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, auð-, Icelandic auð (adverb), auð-, all meaning "easy." More at ease, eath.
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