easy
adjEtymology
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.
Definitions
Comfortable
Comfortable; at ease.
- Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night.
- “[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
Requiring little skill or effort.
- It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up.
- The teacher gave an easy test to her students.
- Now the easiest sell in traveldom is made even easier.
Causing ease
Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
- Rich people live in easy circumstances, that is, the easy life.
- an easy chair
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Free from constraint, harshness, or formality
Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
- easy manners; an easy style
- the easy vigour of a line
Consenting readily to sex.
- She has a reputation for being easy; they say she slept with half the senior class.
Not making resistance or showing unwillingness
Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
- He gain'd their easy hearts.
- He is[…] too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
Not straitened as to money matters
Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
- The market is easy.
In a relaxed or casual manner.
- After his illness, John decided to take it easy.
- Everything comes easy to her.
In a manner without strictness or harshness
In a manner without strictness or harshness; gently; softly.
- Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm.
Handily
Handily; at the very least.
- This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy.
Something that is easy.
- Virtually all of the "easies" are the first watermark and the "toughs" are the second.
- Run past the nasties, kill the easies.
- Make the easies a bit tougher by shaping slightly away from the A position.
Synonym of easy-oar.
Requesting deintensification or a halt.
radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter E.
The neighborhood
- synonymas a duck takes to water
- synonymbasic
- synonymeasy
- synonymeasy as 123
- synonymeasy as ABC
- synonymeasy as cake
- synonymeasy as pie
- synonymeasy as falling off a log
- synonymeasy as rolling off a log
- synonymeasy as toffee
- synonymeasy-breezy
- synonymeasy peasy
- antonymuneasyantonym(s) of “comfortable, at ease”
- antonymanxiousantonym(s) of “comfortable, at ease”
- antonymdifficultantonym(s) of “requiring little skill or effort”
- antonymhardantonym(s) of “requiring little skill or effort”
- antonymuneathantonym(s) of “requiring little skill or effort”
- antonymchallengingantonym(s) of “requiring little skill or effort”
- antonymcomplex
- antonymesoteric
- antonymtough
- antonymtricky
- neighborease
- neighboreasy thing
Derived
easy as falling, rolling off a log, easily, easiness, easy aces, easy as 123, easy as ABC, easy as cake, easy as pie, easy as toffee, easybeat, easy-breezy, easy chair, easy-chair, easycore, easy does it, easy-drinking, easy for you to say, easy-going, easygoing, easyish, easy like, easy listening, easy mark, easy meat, easy money, easy on the eye(s), easy peas(e)y, easy-peas(e)y, easy Japanesey, easy lemon squeezy, easy pumpkin peasy, easy pickings, easy prey, easy street, easy target, free and easy, free-and-easy, go easy, hard-easy effect · +27 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at easy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at easy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at easy
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