easy

Plural: easies

Adjective

• Achieved without great effort; not difficult.
• 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"
• free from worry or anxiety
  • "knowing that I had done my best, my mind was easy"
  • "an easy good-natured manner"

Adjective Satellite

• not hurried or forced
  • "an easy walk around the block"
  • "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace"
• affording pleasure
  • "easy good looks"
• having little impact
  • "an easy pat on the shoulder"
• readily exploited or tricked
  • "an easy victim"
  • "an easy mark"
• in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
  • "easy living"
• marked by moderate steepness
  • "an easy climb"
• affording comfort
  • "soft light that was easy on the eyes"
• casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
  • "her easy virtue"
• less in demand and therefore readily obtainable
  • "commodities are easy this quarter"
• obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally
  • "easy money"

Adverb

• with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily')
  • "success came too easy"
• without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
  • "go easy here--the road is slippery"
• in a relaxed manner; or without hardship; (`soft' is nonstandard)
  • "just wanted to take it easy"

Adj

• Comfortable; at ease.
• Requiring little skill or effort.
• Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
• Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
• Consenting readily to sex.
• Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
• Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.

Adv

• In a relaxed or casual manner.
• In a manner without strictness or harshness; gently; softly.
• Handily; at the very least.

Noun

• A code word for the letter 'E' in communications.
• Something that is easy.

Verb

• Synonym of easy-oar.

Examples

• After his illness, John decided to take it easy.
• an easy chair
• easy manners; an easy style
• Everything comes easy to her.
• Finding a seven-letter word isn’t always as EASY as it looks.
• He needed an ’E’ for his bingo, often referred to as EASY in phonetic alphabet.
• It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up.
• Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm.
• Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night.
• Rich people live in easy circumstances.
• She has a reputation for being easy; they say she slept with half the senior class.
• The market is easy.
• The teacher gave an easy test to her students.
• This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy.

Synonyms

comfortable, easily, easygoing, gentle, leisurely, light, loose, promiscuous, prosperous, slow, slowly, sluttish, soft, tardily, wanton, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do, as a duck takes to water, basic, easy, easy as 123, easy as ABC, easy as cake, easy as falling off a log, easy as pie, easy as rolling off a log, easy peasy, easy peasy Japanesey, easy peasy lemon squeezy, easy-breezy, easy-oar, eath, effortless, facile, fast, idiotproof, like a duck takes to water, like falling off a log, like riding a bike, like robbing a baby, like shelling peas, like shooting fish in a barrel, like taking candy from a baby, natural, painless, piss-easy, plain-sailing, relaxed, relaxing, simple, simple as kiss your hand, simplex, smooth, straightforward, trivial, troublefree, unchallenging, uncomplicated, undemanding, undifficult, yezzy

Antonyms

difficult, quickly, uneasy, anxious, challenging, complex, esoteric, hard, tough, tricky, uneath

Related Words

ease, easy thing

Anagrams of easy