Definition of "easy"

easy

/ˈiːzi/

adjective
comparative easier or more easy, superlative easiest or most easy
1. (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
  Quotations
  “ […] 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.”
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
2. Requiring little skill or effort.
  Quotations
  As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
  2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
  You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
  2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better‎, Plum, page 192
3. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
4. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
  Quotations
  the easy vigour of a line
  1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W. Lewis […], published 1711
5. (informal, derogatory, of a woman) Consenting readily to sex.
6. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
  Quotations
  He gain'd their easy hearts.
  1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
  He is […] too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
  1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […]
7. (finance, dated) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
adverb
comparative easier, superlative easiest
1. In a relaxed or casual manner.
  Quotations
  We immediately threw out all the little things we had with us, ſuch as biſcuits, apples, &c. and after that one of our oars or wings; but ſtill deſcending, we caſt away the other wing, and then the governail ; having likewiſe had the precaution, for fear of accidents, while the Balloon was filling, partly to looſen and make it go eaſy, I now ſucceeded in attempting to reach without the Car, and unſcrewing the moulinet, with all its apparatus; I likewiſe caſt that into the ſea.
  1786, John Jeffries, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, A narrative of the two aerial Voyages of Dr. J. with Mons. Blanchard: with meteorological observations and remarks.‎, page 45
2. In a manner without strictness or harshness.
3. At the very least.
noun
plural easies
1. Something that is easy.
verb
third-person singular simple present easies, present participle easying, simple past and past participle easied
1. (rowing) Synonym of easy-oar

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