English Explanatory Dictionary

easy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Comfortable; at ease.
  2. Requiring little skill or effort.
  3. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
  4. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
  5. Consenting readily to sex.
  6. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
  7. Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
adv
  1. In a relaxed or casual manner.
  2. In a manner without strictness or harshness; gently; softly.
  3. Handily; at the very least.
noun
  1. Something that is easy.
verb
  1. Synonym of easy-oar.
intj
  1. Requesting deintensification or a halt.
noun
  1. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter E.

Pronunciation

/ˈiː.zi/ /ˈɪiː.zɪi/ En-uk-easy.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-easy.wav /ˈi.zi/ En-us-easy.ogg [ˈɪi.zi] /ˈi.ze/ /ˈiː.ze/

Word forms

easy easier more easy easiest most easy aisy easie eazy EZ easies easying easied

Etymology

From Middle English esy, eesy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Anglo-Norman eisé from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), past participle of aisier (“to put at ease”), from aise (“empty space, elbow room, opportunity”), of uncertain origin. See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, auð-, Icelandic auð (adverb), auð-, all meaning "easy." More at ease, eath.

Synonyms

as a duck takes to water basic easy easy as 123 easy as ABC easy as cake easy as pie easy as falling off a log easy as rolling off a log easy as toffee easy-breezy easy peasy easy peasy Japanesey easy peasy lemon squeezy effortless 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 simple simple as kiss your hand simplex smooth straightforward troublefree unchallenging uncomplicated undemanding undifficult yezzy relaxed relaxing soft trivial facile fast light eath easy-oar Echo

Antonyms

uneasy anxious difficult hard uneath challenging complex esoteric tough tricky

Related words

ease easy thing

Derived words

easy as falling rolling off a log easily easiness easy aces easy as 123 easy as ABC easy as cake easy as pie easy as toffee easybeat easy-breezy easy chair easy-chair easycore easy does it easy-drinking easy for you to say easy-going easygoing easyish easy like easy listening easy mark easy meat easy money easy on the eye(s) easy peas(e)y easy-peas(e)y easy Japanesey easy lemon squeezy easy pumpkin peasy easy pickings easy prey easy street easy target free and easy free-and-easy go easy hard-easy effect have an easy time of it have it easy honors easy honours easy I'm easy it is easy to be wise after the event it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog jack-easy my very easy method just speeds up naming planets NP-easy over easy overeasy piss-easy rest easy semi-easy chair stand easy steezy supereasy take easy take it easy
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