easy
//ˈiːzi//
Forms
- Comparative
- easier
- Superlative
- easiest
- Comparative
- easier
- Superlative
- easiest
- Plural
- easies
Definitions
1.Comfortable; at ease.
- Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night.
2.Requiring little skill or effort.
- 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.
3.Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
- Rich people live in easy circumstances, that is, the easy life.
4.Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
- It's not as easy as it looks.
- I know it's not easy.
- The exam was very easy.
1.In a relaxed or casual manner.
- After his illness, John decided to take it easy.
- Everything comes easy to her.
2.In a manner without strictness or harshness; gently; softly.
- Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm.
3.Handily; at the very least.
- This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy.
1.Something that is easy.(informal)
- Run past the nasties, kill the easies.
- Make the easies a bit tougher by shaping slightly away from the A position.
- Virtually all of the "easies" are the first watermark and the "toughs" are the second.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #423
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
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.