Easy \Eas"y\, a. [Compar. Easier; superl. Easiest.] [OF.
aisi['e], F. ais['e], prop. p. p. of OF. aisier. See Ease,
v. t.]
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." --Pope.
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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." --Shak.
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3. Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight;
inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.
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It were an easy leap. --Shak.
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4. Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor;
furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an
easy chair or cushion.
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5. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable;
yielding; complying; ready.
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He gained their easy hearts. --Dryden.
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He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch. --Sir W.
Scott.
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6. Moderate; sparing; frugal. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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7. (Com.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market
is easy; -- opposed to tight.
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Honors are easy (Card Playing), said when each side has an
equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted
as points.
Syn: Quiet; comfortable; manageable; tranquil; calm; facile;
unconcerned.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
easy
adj 1: 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" [ant: difficult]
2: not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at
a leisurely (or easygoing) pace" [syn: easygoing, leisurely]
3: 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 child faced the actual problem of reading
she was familiar and at ease with all the elements words"
[syn: at ease] [ant: uneasy]
4: affording pleasure; "easy good looks"
5: having little impact; "an easy pat on the shoulder"; "gentle
rain"; "a gentle breeze"; "a soft (or light) tapping at
the window" [syn: gentle, soft]
6: in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich;
"they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards";
"easy living"; "a prosperous family"; "his family is
well-situated financially"; "well-to-do members of the
community" [syn: comfortable, prosperous, well-fixed,
well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do]
7: not harsh; causing little distress; "an easy penalty"
8: readily exploited or tricked; "an easy mark"; "an easy
victim"
9: marked by moderate steepness; "an easy climb"; "a gentle
slope" [syn: gentle]
10: performing adroitly and without effort; "her easy grace"; "a
facile hand" [syn: facile]
11: not strict; "an easy teacher"; "easy standards"; "lenient
rules" [syn: lenient]
12: affording comfort; "soft light that was easy on the eyes"
13: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy
virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women";
"wanton behavior" [syn: light, loose, promiscuous,
sluttish, wanton]
14: less in demand and therefore readily obtainable;
"commodities are easy this quarter"
15: plentiful and therefore at low interest rates; easy to come
by; "easy money"
adv 1: with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for
`easily'); "she was easily excited"; "was easily
confused"; "he won easily"; "this china breaks very
easily"; "success came too easy" [syn: easily]
2: without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for
`slowly'); "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is
slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; "please go slow so I
can see the sights" [syn: slowly, slow, tardily]
[ant: quickly]
3: in a relaxed manner; or without hardship; "just wanted to
take it easy" (`soft' is nonstandard) [syn: soft]
[also: easied, easiest, easier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
390 Moby Thesaurus words for "easy":
Attic, Bohemian, Ciceronian, Mickey Mouse, Paphian, accepting,
accommodating, acquiescent, affable, affluent, agreeable, ambling,
amenable, amiable, amicable, apparent, at ease, at home, at rest,
bagging, baggy, blase, bone-lazy, bonhomous, budget, cadging, calm,
calmly, cannily, carefree, carefully, careless, casual, casually,
cautious, cautiously, chambering, charmed, chaste, cheap,
circumspect, circumspectly, classic, claudicant, clear, clear-cut,
clement, comfortable, comfortably situated, comfy, commodious,
compassionate, complaisant, compliant, composed, content,
contented, convenient, cordial, cosy, cozy, crawling, credulous,
creeping, cullible, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, dainty, dangling,
deceivable, degage, deliberate, delicate, delighted, deludable,
devil-may-care, dilatory, direct, discreetly, distinct, do-nothing,
docile, doless, down-to-earth, dronish, drony, drooping, dupable,
easeful, easy as pie, easy-natured, easygoing, economic, economy,
effortless, effortlessly, elegant, elementary, ergophobic,
eupeptic, euphoric, even, evident, exhilarated, exploitable,
facile, faineant, faltering, familiar, favorably impressed with,
finished, flagging, flapping, flexible, flowing, fluent, folksy,
foolable, foolproof, foot-dragging, forbearant, forbearing,
forgiving, free and easy, friendly, frugal, genial, gentle,
gingerly, glad, gladsome, glib, good-for-nothing, good-humored,
good-natured, good-tempered, graceful, gracile, gracious, gradual,
gratified, green, guardedly, gullible, halting, hands down,
hanging, happy, hasteless, haymish, heedfully, hoaxable, hobbled,
hobbling, homelike, homely, homey, hoodwinkable, humane,
humbugable, idle, impotent, imprecise, in clover, in good case,
in luxury, inactive, indifferent, indolent, indulgent, inexpensive,
informal, ingenuous, intrigued, irregular, judiciously,
lackadaisical, laggard, languid, languorous, lax, lazy, leisurely,
lenient, light, limpid, limping, lived-in, loose, loose-moraled,
low, low-priced, lucid, lumbering, luxurious, manageable, manifest,
mellow, mellowy, merciful, mild, mindfully, moderate, modest,
mollified, naive, natural, neat, negligent, nominal, nonaggressive,
nonchalant, nonchalantly, nonresistive, nonrigid, nothing to it,
obvious, of easy virtue, of good comfort, of loose morals, offhand,
offhanded, on Easy Street, on velvet, outgoing, overindulgent,
overpermissive, painless, parasitic, patient, pawkily, peaceful,
peacefully, pellucid, permissive, perspicuous, persuadable, plain,
pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, pleasing, pliant, poking,
poky, polished, procrastinative, promiscuous, prosperous,
prudently, pure, quiet, reasonable, reconciled, refined,
regardfully, relaxed, relaxing, reluctant, remiss, reposeful,
resigned, restful, restrained, rickety, roomy, round, royal,
sans souci, satisfied, sauntering, scrounging, seduceable,
sensible, serene, serenely, shabby, shaky, shiftless, shoddy,
shuffling, simple, simple as ABC, slack, slipshod, sloppy,
slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow,
slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving,
slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped,
sluggish, smooth, snail-paced, snaillike, snug, sociable, soft,
soft as putty, softened, sold on, sponging, staggering, steady,
straightforward, streaming, strolling, submissive, successful,
suggestible, sweet, sweet-tempered, taken with, tasteful,
temperately, tender, tentative, terse, thrilled, tickled,
tickled pink, tickled to death, toddling, token, tolerant,
tortoiselike, tottering, tractable, tranquil, tranquilly, trim,
tripping, trudging, trusting, turtlelike, unaffected, unassuming,
unburdensome, unceremonious, uncomplaining, uncomplicated,
uncompounded, unconcerned, unconstrained, unconventional,
undemanding, undisturbed, unenterprising, unexacting, unexpensive,
unhasty, unhurried, uninvolved, unlabored, unofficial, unrepining,
unreserved, unrestrained, unsophisticated, unstrained, unstudied,
untroubled, untroublesome, victimizable, waddling, wanton, warm,
wayward, weak, wealthy, well-natured, whisper-soft, whorish,
with care, with caution, within means, without care, work-shy,
worth the money
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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