Definition of easy in English:
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adjectiveadjective easier, adjective easiest
1Achieved without great effort; presenting few difficulties.
‘an easy way of retrieving information’- ‘It will not be easy for Lin to achieve his aim, but setbacks just seem to spur him on.’
- ‘Reivin was dodging using very little effort, as if this was all far too easy for him.’
- ‘He said it was easy for politicians to make spending promises but more difficult to find the money.’
- ‘The real difficulty is that it's very easy for someone to mess up these predictions.’
- ‘We found this unit relatively easy to use.’
- ‘Usually, I find it fairly easy to find a representative sample of a photographer's work.’
- ‘We hear a lot about how it has become too easy to get into university these days.’
- ‘I encountered no glitches in my testing, and found it fairly easy to use.’
- ‘The recovery environment will boot and present a menu system that is fairly easy to navigate.’
- ‘But it is surprisingly easy to forget what you spend in a day.’
- ‘It is easy to tell who is really serious about the profession.’
- ‘Butterflies are attracted to brightly colored, sweet-smelling flowers that allow them easy access.’
- ‘The pages will be ordered by category to allow easy access by the user.’
- ‘However, working in the film industry is no easy task, confesses Rocky.’
- ‘The upper half of the deck is placed within easy reach of all players.’
- ‘While finding a partner or date is hard, maintaining the relationship should be easy.’
- ‘With so many people to choose from, booking several dates in a short amount of time is easy.’
- ‘That seems to be the easy way out - and just what many of the far right would like to see happen.’
- ‘It's easy to see why the candidates are so eager talk about anything other than marriage.’
- ‘Capturing and holding the attention of a classroom for an entire lecture period is no easy task.’
uncomplicated, not difficult, undemanding, unexacting, unchallenging, effortless, painless, trouble-free, facile, simple, straightforward, elementary, idiot-proof, plain sailingView synonyms2(of a period of time or way of life) free from worries or problems.
‘promises of an easy life in the New World’- ‘Bristol is an easy weekend trip from Scotland, and city-centre hotels at the right price do not come much better than this one.’
- ‘It won't be an easy summer for Ridsdale, but unlike the next manager, he can be sure he'll be there this time next year.’
- ‘Now that competition has been introduced into the tertiary system, the easy days are over.’
- ‘Mr Heavens said it had not been an easy year from that point of view.’
- ‘It has not been an easy year and can only be described as a ‘roller coaster’ of emotion.’
- ‘Law is not expecting an easy season, though, despite Lancashire's drop in status.’
- ‘The second day we had an easy day to let us get accustomed to the eight hour time difference.’
- ‘We found ourselves standing on a threshold one easy summer evening, looking at the stars.’
- ‘It hasn't been an easy day for the governors, so great to see you here.’
- ‘These are not easy days, for sitting shiva is emotionally and physically draining.’
- ‘Monaco is a special race on the Formula One calendar and Schumacher does not expect an easy weekend ahead.’
- ‘The rally was a new event for everyone and it's not been an easy weekend.’
- ‘Fourteen is not an easy age and getting your children into the right frame of mind for these tests can be difficult.’
- ‘He looked set for an easy season after early domination, but a slump in his form mid-season made a race of it.’
- ‘Those first few years weren't easy, but I kept the club up in difficult circumstances.’
- ‘The house in the suburbs, the sense of life being easy and calm, it was a little dull but fulfilling.’
- ‘He swears life was easy until he headed out into the world to make it by just being himself.’
- ‘In many ways, life is too easy for those American developers.’
- ‘And things aren't always easy for famous people like my dad.’
- ‘Life has not always been easy for the 41-year-old, who was born in Bolton but grew up in Edinburgh.’
calm, tranquil, serene, quiet, peaceful, trouble-free, untroubled, undisturbed, unworried, contented, relaxed, comfortable, secure, safeView synonyms- 2.1(of a person) lacking anxiety or awkwardness; relaxed.‘his easy and agreeable manner’
- ‘they didn't feel easy about what they were doing’
- ‘He is so easy with it that like a general who has always won battles, he has won loud applause from the audience after each show.’
- ‘There are kids riding horses and dogs chasing sticks yet we're all easy like Sunday morning.’
- ‘I'm easy, either way, just so long as we don't have to go back and live in Wales again.’
natural, casual, informal, unceremonious, unreserved, uninhibited, unconstrained, unforced, unaffected, free and easy, easy-going, familiar, amiable, affable, genial, congenial, agreeable, good-humouredView synonyms
3attributive (of an object of attack or criticism) having no defense; vulnerable.
‘he was vulnerable and an easy target’- ‘So often the local authorities are an easy target for criticism, sometimes unfair and unjustified.’
- ‘They concluded that the generators would be an easy target for a terrorist attack of enormous consequence.’
- ‘Being slow does make them easy targets and one RAAF aircraft has come under attack in Baghdad.’
- ‘He's an easy target and they all laid into him with predictable criticism for being out of touch and old fashioned.’
- ‘It is an easy point of criticism Larry, but the problem with family violence is the hidden nature of it.’
- ‘It is thought that the attacker preyed on him because he thought he was an easy target.’
- ‘It is this false sense of security that makes them such easy targets.’
- ‘During WWII, neon was ordered off, for fear it would make easy bombing targets.’
- ‘Police had also warned candidates not to extend election meetings late into the night as it would make them easy targets for assassins.’
- ‘I know as I've done it in other big games on the world stage, but referees always have been, and always will be, easy targets.’
- ‘Part of the reason is that the lunch programs are an easy target for political special interests.’
- ‘You searched for premises which were comparatively easy targets.’
- ‘Orkney has become a possible easy target for smugglers because of the lack of permanent Customs cover in the islands’
- ‘Thanks to harassed arts writers looking for easy targets, mime traditionally gets a bit of a kicking at the festival.’
- ‘The stretch of 62 kilometers of the outer ring road has been a haunt for criminals who find easy targets.’
- ‘Everyone who has played them has regarded them as an easy target.’
- ‘His step mum believes his condition could make him an easy target.’
- ‘Pedigree dogs worth hundreds of pounds are being seen as an easy target by criminals who sell them on at bargain prices to new owners.’
- ‘I look like easy pickings for the local bullies, but I'm not.’
- ‘Mr Weston, a lifelong biker, said: " Bikers are easy pickings.’
vulnerable, susceptible, exploitable, defenceless, naive, gullible, trusting, credulous, impressionable, ripe for the pickingView synonyms- 3.1 informal, derogatory Very receptive to sexual advances (typically used of a woman)
- ‘her reputation at school for being easy’
- ‘They thought she was easy, that they could buy her a drink and then get into her pants at the end of the night.’
- ‘Yet she wasn't easy like some of the girls hanging out around Soho at that time.’
- ‘Nobody is going to think you're easy, in fact they will probably think you are sensible and cautious.’
- ‘Just ‘cause I'm pregnant doesn't mean I'm easy!’’
- ‘I can't believe how harsh some people are about me trying to get it on with Daniel just because I'd had a little too much to drink doesn't mean that I'm easy.’
- ‘I think I'm funny, smart, attractive, vivacious; does that mean guys automatically think I'm easy?’
- ‘He must think I'm such a slut, that I'm easy white trash.’
Pronunciation
adverb
archaic, informal USWithout difficulty or effort.
- ‘we all scared real easy in those days’
- ‘It was the first time she ever gave me a real compliment, and I was surprised how easy it came to her lips.’
- ‘We were playing basketball just dribbling it easy along the graffiti lot.’
- ‘He found the looking glass easy enough, though why it was intact he couldn't say.’
Pronunciation
exclamation
Be careful.
- ‘easy, girl—you'll knock me over!’
Pronunciation
Phrases
- I'm easy
Said by someone when offered a choice to indicate that they have no particular preference.
- ‘I enjoy producing things people like and can play in… I get a kick out of it and as long as I can break even, I'm easy.’
- ‘There are a lot of good ways to do so - I'm easy like that.’
- ‘If you don't want it to work, that's ok, I'm easy, I don't mind.’
Be more easily talked about than put into practice.
‘going on an economy drive is easier said than done’- ‘This is often easier said than done because it takes practice and commitment.’
- ‘I know, it's easier said than done, but it is something to aim for.’
- ‘At the other end the Westport forwards will have to step up to the plate in a big way but that's easier said than done against the Nallens and company.’
- ‘Putting quality on to the nation's screens (and into the nation's radio speakers) is easier said than done.’
- ‘Indeed, to cultivate altruism is easier said than done and to do away with time-honoured beliefs is almost hopeless.’
- ‘The problem is that growing protein crystals is a lot easier said than done - at least on terra firma.’
- ‘Forty years' experience has shown this is easier said than done, but surely it's possible.’
- ‘Though I know that is easier said than done, I can support that goal as an ideal.’
- ‘Because inactivity weakens the back muscles, pain sufferers should stay active, but it is sometimes easier said than done.’
- ‘The etiquette rule is to use the furthest outside one as the different courses are served, but that is easier said than done.’
Used to indicate that a relationship or possession acquired without effort may be abandoned or lost casually and without regret.
‘A job, a relationship, my savings account: It was easy come, easy go.’- ‘They've won fame rather than worked for it, and they've treated it pretty much like Viv Nicholson handled her pools win - easy come, easy go.’
- ‘For him, allegations are easy come, easy go.’
- ‘They nick them too, but I think easy come, easy go.’
Used especially in spoken English to advise someone to approach a task carefully and slowly.
‘with father's wine in the back I mustn't drive too fast, so easy does it’- ‘Easy, easy does it, not too much, just a little bit more.’
- ‘So easy does it with the imagery from now on, I promise.’
- ‘Whether your sending out a quick ‘hello’ or ‘meet us here later’, it's easy does it all the way.’
- ‘Carter shushed her, ‘Hey, easy does it there, Laura.’’
- ‘‘Whoa, easy does it,’ stated the man Jasper had so uncharacteristically bashed into.’
Pleasant to listen to.
- ‘his singing is easy on the ear’
Pleasant to look at.
- ‘a charming village that is easy on the eye’
- ‘The paintings are easy on the eye and very pleasant but we think that the artist is stopping short of something quite extraordinary.’
- ‘The teenage appeal doubtless springs from the fact that all of the boys are pretty easy on the eye, but that's as far as the similarities go.’
- ‘Both the cut scenes and in-game animation are quite smooth and generally pretty easy on the eye.’
- ‘Thankfully, there was a diving team on hand to make sure none of us drowned - and they were all pretty easy on the eye.’
- ‘We wanted people who are easy on the eye, who are really good actors, who are still in their 20s and who were available.’
- ‘Neighbours of two new futuristic ‘solar dwellings’ have been warned that the environmentally-friendly properties may not be so easy on the eye.’
- ‘Manicured lawns, weeded borders and pruned shrubs may be easy on the eye, but they're not necessarily great for encouraging wildlife.’
- ‘Invested with 16 years of research, the trainers are not only easy on the eye but they're also alleged to help you exercise more efficiently.’
- ‘Clean lines punctuated with specimen plants are ideal not only because they are easy on the eye, but they also have the practical benefit of aiding security.’
- ‘My two nearest neighbours are rather nice chaps who also happen to be exceptionally easy on the eye.’
A person who readily gives or does something if asked.
- ‘anyone who thinks you are an easy touch is in for a big surprise’
1Refrain from being harsh with or critical of (someone)
- ‘go easy on him, Rory, he's only little’
2Be sparing in one's use or consumption of.
- ‘go easy on fatty foods’
Be free from difficulties; be fortunate.
- ‘they have had it easy for too long and have become complacent’
- ‘The Bay Area is a fortunate place with plentiful resources so we kind of have it easy.’
- ‘There is no single country that is having it easy.’
- ‘Despite the expected traffic jams, potential electrical brown-outs and terrorist threats, modern Olympians and spectators have it easy, compared to their ancient counterparts.’
- ‘They didn't have it easy because I am quite an impatient person when it comes to training, I just want to do as much as I can.’
- ‘The girls who walked the ramp on Monday had to answer questions about every thing from history, philosophy to music and clearly they did not have it easy.’
- ‘By comparison with my days of school report writing (all had to be written by hand, in permanent ink), teachers of today have it easy.’
- ‘A sense of failure is a horrible feeling, especially to someone like me who's always had it easy, and never really failed a subject at school.’
- ‘Blige, who grew up in the projects, has never had it easy, and the tough times remain embedded in her lyrics.’
- ‘My guess is that throughout the early to mid 1990s Labour had it easy.’
- ‘But for the life of me, I can't see how anybody in their right mind could possibly think she's had it easy.’
Very receptive to sexual advances (typically used of a woman)
‘critics believed that as a painter she must be a woman of easy virtue’- ‘‘Most of the money was spent on booze and women of easy virtue - whores in other words,’ he told me in an interview.’
- ‘Beautiful and well-bred, she suffered the hostile treatment of critics who believed that as a painter she must be a woman of easy virtue.’
- ‘She speaks of a woman of easy virtue and outstanding beauty who, when painters went to her to take her portrait, ‘showed as much of her person as she could with propriety’.’
- ‘In Shanghai Express, probably her finest film, she was a woman of easy virtue, mouthing the famous line.’
- ‘There is a woman of easy virtue, also gleefully played by Jane Nash, who tries to entrap Bob and the usual subplot of the squire's nephew trying to anticipate his inheritance.’
- ‘He is promptly thrown into the seamy world of Montreal's nightlife - its clubs, its cabarets, its women of easy virtue.’
- ‘They looked gorgeous and portrayed, - and I hope they will not take this amiss - ladies of easy virtue decoratively and to the life.’
- ‘In this case a lady reputed to be of easy virtue and a girlfriend of one of the local policemen, had made statements intimidating the men for trial.’
- ‘Piercings were sometimes worn by women, but only those of easy virtue.’
- ‘He has been brought up by a lady of easy virtue in the bazaar.’
Be untroubled by worries.
‘this insurance policy will let you rest easy’- ‘A Ladbrokes spokesman said: ‘It looks like all the bookies will be sleeping easy in their beds on Christmas morning.’’
- ‘That's not my fight, and I'll sleep easy tonight knowing that I've answered the call of duty with an extra topping of usefulness.’
- ‘How this person can sleep easy at night is beyond me.’
- ‘They can sleep easy at night, burying thoughts that intruders may compromise their privacy.’
- ‘Now you can sleep easy, safe in the knowledge that someone in a position of power is promoting your agenda.’
- ‘Can we sleep easy at nights knowing that people are being paid sweatshop wages for our benefit?’
- ‘Regardless of what the polls might indicate, citizens are no longer resting easy in the belief that their government can be trusted to protect their interests.’
- ‘If you were worried that the band had lost their touch, that they just weren't capable of making a good album, you can rest easy.’
- ‘But on the basis of present evidence we can rest easy.’
- ‘The Home Secretary can rest easy in his bed tonight.’
Go to sleep without worries.
- ‘Mac and Linux users can sleep easy. They're immune to the virus’
1Make little effort; rest.
‘I can't take it easy, I have to keep working hard’- ‘I just slept a lot and took it easy’
2Proceed in a calm and relaxed manner.
- ‘no matter where you're headed this summer, take it easy in one of these cool crocheted tops’
Extricate oneself from a difficult situation by choosing the simplest or most expedient course rather than the most honorable or ethical one.
‘she had taken the easy way out by returning the keys without a message’- ‘We should ensure that the government does that work, rather than taking the easy way out and sacrificing justice to expediency.’
- ‘Too often, the scripts choose to take the easy way out.’
- ‘He chose to take the easy way out and slam the council.’
- ‘As the economy plods along, many of us are choosing to take the easy way out.’
- ‘As finance minister, Ng never took the easy way out.’
- ‘I took the easy way out and did the very unsporting thing of hiding my assigned fabric inside the pockets as a lining.’
- ‘It is just not true, as his critics assert, that he always took the easy way out.’
- ‘In most science exhibitions, there are student groups that take the easy way out and opt for a project that can be put together using easily available material.’
- ‘To take the easy way out, one might just chalk both up to blatant stupidity, but there are always other reasons as well.’
- ‘There is a sense of entitlement that I think has caused many to take the easy way out.’
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Origin
Middle English (also in the sense ‘comfortable, tranquil’): from Old French aisie, past participle of aisier ‘put at ease, facilitate’ (see ease).