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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



... the atoms of bodies which are equivalents to each other in their ordinary chemical action, have equal quantities of electricity naturally associated with them. But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compound ...
— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday
... "they were remarkably easy. I've seen them, I've HAD them," she smiled, "more difficult. Everything, you must feel, went of itself. So, you ...
— The Golden Bowl • Henry James
... face the searching glances of the brigands as they shoved around us. This was a desperate game into which we had plunged! For all our acting, how easy it would be for some small chance thing abruptly to undo us! I realized it, and now, as I gazed into the peering faces of these men from Mars, I cursed my witless rashness which had brought Anita ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 • Various
... of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover'd there. How ...
— The Vision of Hell, Part 1, Illustrated by Gustave Dore - The Inferno • Dante Alighieri, Translated By The Rev. H. F. Cary
... utmost importance. Their true use is to facilitate campaign-movements; and while they should be taken only when there is a reasonable prospect of their being real facilites, they should not be left behind when any such prospect exists. It was in response to the demand for easy transportation that the system for India-rubber pontoons was elaborated. Single supporting cylinders of rubber-coated canvas were first experimentally used in 1836 by Captain John F. Lane, United States ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 • Various


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