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Easy   /ˈizi/   Listen
adjective
Easy  adj.  (compar. easier; superl. easiest)  
1.
At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint; as:
(a)
Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy.
(b)
Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind.
(c)
Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style. "The easy vigor of a line."
2.
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. "Easy ways to die."
3.
Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory. "It were an easy leap."
4.
Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.
5.
Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready. "He gained their easy hearts." "He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch."
6.
Moderate; sparing; frugal. (Obs.)
7.
(Com.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; opposed to tight.
Honors are easy (Card Playing), said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points.
Synonyms: Quiet; comfortable; manageable; tranquil; calm; facile; unconcerned.





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"Easy" Quotes from Famous Books



... philosopher of Fortune. "All languages come easy to the man who must know 'em. I've even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in classical Chinese when it was backed up by the muzzle of a breech-loader. This little literary essay I hold in my hands means a ...
— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry
... a comparatively easy time of it for the rest of the term. He usually managed to secure four out of the five points obtainable, and steadily added to his score until at last there was no chance of anyone beating him, and he could ...
— Bert Lloyd's Boyhood - A Story from Nova Scotia • J. McDonald Oxley
... contemptible curiosity which it had planted in my mind, more than at any former time. These women—I could find it in my heart to hate them for their frankness, for their foolish confidence, and the silly trustfulness that made them so easy a prey! ...
— Under the Red Robe • Stanley Weyman
... commemorate the return of Vittorio EmanueleI. to Turin after the fall of Napoleon. Alittle to the right on a hill (Il Monte) is a Capuchin convent, built towards the end of the 16th cent. The road up is very easy, and the view from the terrace admirable. Immediately above the Madre di Dio church is the palace, La Vigna della Regina, built by Prince Maurice of Savoy, which after his time was inhabited by one of ...
— The South of France--East Half • Charles Bertram Black
... up the loft ladder—practice had made this once difficult feat easy for them—and for a half hour jumped about in the clean, sweet hay, forgetting their game. The smooth, slippery hay, piled in such masses, never failed ...
— Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm • Mabel C. Hawley


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