easygoing \eas"y*go`ing\, easy-going
\eas"y-go`ing\([=e]z"[y^]*g[=o]`[i^]ng), a.
1. Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; relaxed and casual;
ease-loving; inactive. Contrasted with tense. [WordNet
sense 2]
Syn: degage, easy-going, laid-back.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
2. having a lax moral or disciplinary standard. [WordNet
sense 1] strict
Syn: lenient.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. unhurried; as, an easygoing pace. Opposite of hurried.
[WordNet sense 3]
Syn: easy, leisurely.
[WordNet 1.5]
4. unaggressive; as, his easygoing approach to business.
Opposite of aggressive. [WordNet sense 4]
Syn: low-pressure.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
easygoing
adj 1: inclined to be excessively tolerant
2: unhurried and relaxed; "an easygoing pace"; "a mellow
conversation" [syn: laid-back, mellow]
3: not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at
a leisurely (or easygoing) pace" [syn: easy, leisurely]
4: not stressful; "an easygoing life as a parttime consultant"
5: taking life easy; "an easygoing man rarely stirred to
anger"; "an air of placid sufficiency" [syn: placid]
WordNet (r) 2.0
187 Moby Thesaurus words for "easygoing":
Bohemian, Micawberish, accepting, affable, afoot and lighthearted,
airy, apathetic, at ease, at large, at liberty, ataractic,
backward, blase, breezy, carefree, careless, casual, clear,
clement, collected, comfortable, common, compassionate, composed,
content, contented, cordial, cursory, dallying, degage, delaying,
detached, devil-may-care, dilatory, dillydallying, disengaged,
disinterested, dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, drony,
easy, emancipated, eupeptic, euphoric, even-tempered, faineant,
familiar, flexible, flippant, folksy, foot-dragging, footloose,
footloose and fancy-free, forbearant, forbearing, forgetful,
forgiving, free, free and easy, free as air, freeborn, freed,
gentle, go-as-you-please, gracious, happy, haymish, heedless,
homely, homey, humane, impotent, imprecise, in the clear,
inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indolent,
inexcitable, informal, insouciant, irregular, lackadaisical,
laggard, lagging, lax, lazy, lenient, liberated, lingering,
listless, loitering, loose, low-pressure, mellow, merciful, mild,
mindless, moderate, natural, negligent, nonchalant, oblivious,
of good comfort, offhand, offhanded, on the loose, overindulgent,
overpermissive, patient, perfunctory, permissive, placid, plain,
pleased, pococurante, poised, procrastinating, procrastinative,
procrastinatory, reckless, reconciled, regardless, relaxed,
released, remiss, resigned, respectless, sans souci, satisfied,
scot-free, self-possessed, serene, shuffling, simple, slack,
slipshod, sloppy, slothful, slow, sluggish, sociable, soft,
tactless, tender, thoughtless, tolerant, tranquil, turned-off,
unaffected, unambitious, unanxious, unassuming, unattached,
unceremonious, uncommitted, uncomplaining, unconcerned,
unconstrained, unconventional, undemanding, undiplomatic,
undiscriminating, unengaged, unfussy, unheedful, unheeding,
uninhibited, uninterested, uninvolved, unmindful, unofficial,
unprepared, unready, unrepining, unreserved, unrestrained,
unsolicitous, unstudied, untactful, unthinking, weak, wishy-washy,
without care, work-shy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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