easy
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
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.
Base: ease
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: easier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more easy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: easiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most easy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: aisy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
dialectal
form: easie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: eazy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: EZ
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
abbreviation
informal
form: easier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: easiest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: aisy
pos: adv
tags: alternative
archaic
dialectal
form: easie
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: eazy
pos: adv
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: EZ
pos: adv
tags: alternative
US
abbreviation
informal
form: easies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: easying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: easied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: easied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: aisy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
dialectal
form: easie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: eazy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: EZ
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
abbreviation
informal
form: aisy
pos: intj
tags: alternative
archaic
dialectal
form: easie
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: eazy
pos: intj
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: EZ
pos: intj
tags: alternative
US
abbreviation
informal
Senses:
gloss: Comfortable; at ease.
pos: adj
examples: Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night.
“[…] 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.”
gloss: Requiring little skill or effort.
pos: adj
examples: It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up.
The teacher gave an easy test to her students.
Now the easiest sell in traveldom is made even easier.
I realized this all too well when as a seminarian I got stuck with the job of recruiting the washees for a Maundy Thursday service. It's much easier to be the one down on the floor with the basin[…]
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.
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.
Toyota spokesman Paul Hogard said the automaker wants speedometers to be easy to read, so there’s value in placing the typical operating speed of American cars, 45 mph to 70 mph, he said, at the top of the speedometer, which is the easiest place on the speedometer for the driver to read.
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to make it easier for his administration to deport people to South Sudan and other countries that are not their homeland, the latest in a series of controversial immigration policies the administration has put before the conservative-majority high court.
gloss: Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
pos: adj
examples: Rich people live in easy circumstances, that is, the easy life.
an easy chair
gloss: Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
pos: adj
examples: easy manners; an easy style
the easy vigour of a line
gloss: Consenting readily to sex.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
informal
usually
examples: She has a reputation for being easy; they say she slept with half the senior class.
gloss: Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
pos: adj
examples: He gain'd their easy hearts.
He is[…] too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
gloss: Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: The market is easy.
gloss: In a relaxed or casual manner.
pos: adv
examples: After his illness, John decided to take it easy.
Everything comes easy to her.
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.
gloss: In a manner without strictness or harshness; gently; softly.
pos: adv
examples: Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm.
gloss: Handily; at the very least.
pos: adv
examples: This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy.
gloss: Synonym of easy-oar.
pos: verb
gloss: Requesting deintensification or a halt.
pos: intj
tags: informal
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
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 reader
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
take the easy way out
there isn't any easy way to say this
uneasily
uneasiness
woman of easy virtue
breathe easy
sleep easy
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