Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Capable of being accomplished or acquired with ease; posing no difficulty: an easy victory; an easy problem.
- adj. Requiring or exhibiting little effort or endeavor; undemanding: took the easy way out of her problems; wasn't satisfied with easy answers.
- adj. Free from worry, anxiety, trouble, or pain: My mind was easy, knowing that I had done my best.
- adj. Affording comfort or relief; soothing: soft light that was easy on the eyes.
- adj. Prosperous; well-off: easy living; easy circumstances.
- adj. Causing little hardship or distress: an easy penalty; a habit that isn't easy to give up.
- adj. Socially at ease: an easy, good-natured manner.
- adj. Relaxed in attitude; easygoing: an easy disposition.
- adj. Not strict or severe; lenient: an easy teacher; easy standards.
- adj. Readily exploited, imposed on, or tricked: an easy mark; an easy victim.
- adj. Not hurried or forced; moderate: an easy pace; an easy walk around the block.
- adj. Light; gentle: an easy tap on the shoulder.
- adj. Not steep or abrupt; gradual: an easy climb.
- adj. Economics Less in demand and therefore readily obtainable: Commodities are easier this quarter.
- adj. Economics Plentiful and therefore at low interest rates: easy money.
- adj. Promiscuous; loose.
- adv. Without haste or agitation: Relax and take it easy for a while.
- adv. With little effort; easily: success that came too easy.
- adv. In a restrained or moderate manner: Go easy on the butter.
- adv. Without much hardship or cost: got off easy with only a small fine.
- idiom. easy as pie Informal Capable of being accomplished or done with no difficulty.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having ease. Free from bodily pain or discomfort; quiet; comfortable: as, the patient has slept well and is easy.
- Free from want or from solicitude as to the means of living; affording a competence without toil; comfortable: as, easy circumstances; an easy fortune.
- Not difficult; not wearisome; giving or requiring no great labor or effort; presenting no great obstacles; not burdensome: as, an easy task; an easy question; an easy road.
- Giving no pain, shock, or discomfort: as, an easy posture; an easy carriage; an easy trot.
- Moderate; not pressing or straining; not exacting; indulgent: as, a ship under easy sail; an easy master.
- Readily yielding; not difficult of persuasion; compliant; not strict: as, a woman of easy virtue.
- Not constrained; not stiff, formal, or harsh; facile; natural: as, easy manners; an easy address; an easy style of writing.
- Easeful; self-indulgent.
- Light; sparing; frugal.
- Indifferent; of rather poor quality.
- In com., not straitened or restricted, or difficult to obtain or manage: opposed to tight: as, the money-market is easy (that is, loans may be easily procured).
- Synonyms Untroubled, contented, satisfied.
- Pliant, complaisant, accommodating.
- Unconstrained, graceful.
- Easily.
Wiktionary
- adj. Comfortable; at ease.
- adj. Requiring little skill or effort, soft.
- adj. informal, pejorative, of a person Consenting readily to sex.
- adv. In a relaxed or casual manner
- adv. In a manner without strictness or harshness.
- adv. Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint.
- adj. Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet.
- adj. Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil.
- adj. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
- adj. Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest.
- adj. Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable.
- adj. Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious.
- adj. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.
- adj. obsolete Moderate; sparing; frugal.
- adj. (Com.) Not straitened as to money matters; ; -- opposed to
tight .
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a relaxed manner; or without hardship
- adj. less in demand and therefore readily obtainable
- adj. casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- adj. free from worry or anxiety
- adj. posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
- adj. marked by moderate steepness
- adj. obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally
- adv. without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
- adj. affording comfort
- adj. having little impact
- adj. in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
- adv. with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily')
- adj. readily exploited or tricked
- adj. not hurried or forced
- adj. affording pleasure
Etymologies
- From Middle English esy, aisie ("eased, at ease, at leisure"), from Old French aisie ("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 ("not difficult, easy"), from Old English ēaþe, īeþe ("easy, smooth, not difficult"), from Proto-Germanic *auþaz, *auþijaz (“easy, pleasing”), from *auþiz (“vacant, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *aut- (“empty, lonely”). Compare also Old Saxon ōþi ("easy, vacant, empty"), Old High German ōdi ("easy, effortless, vacant, empty"), Old Norse auðr ("easy, vacant, empty"). More at ease, eath. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English esi, from Old French aaisie, past participle of aaisier, to put at ease : a-, to (from Latin ad-, ad-) + aise, ease; see ease. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“…And that is that it will be easy, *easy*, to sabotage a program this unpopular, once it passes.”
The Broken Political Equation - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState
“I *know* it's easy to love California and not as *easy* when it comes to loving Michigan.”
“Use to be so easy, I never even tried/Yeah, use to be so easy ”
“There -- easy now -- _easy_" as she threatened to capsize this curious basin.”
“With a headlamp as his only light, Maslyn unseals an environmental door to reveal what he calls an easy entrance tunnel - half a meter wide - the size of a dinner platter.”
“WHITTLE: I tell people, after you have done all your homework, all of the, what I call the easy stuff, the stuff that any do-it - yourselfer can do, get an energy audit.”
“And Allan, it looks like if this northern little jog continues, you may be on the south side of the side of the eye, which we call the easy side.”
“Saavik asked, coming up behind him, her expression easy.”
“He argues you know what, it's unfair for the people of Idaho for him to take what he calls the easy path and just simply resign.”
“He argues, you know what, it's unfair to the people of Idaho for him to take what he calls the easy path and just simply resign.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘easy’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
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The Universal Calculator
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What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Words That Sell Snake Oil
Trying to sell an overpriced e-book that will communicate the true secrets of wealth, power, or yard-care? Here are some helpful words to sprinkle in your copy.
sensational, expertise, secrets, guaranteed, success, legitimate, conclusive, amazing, smart, free, easy, automatic and 18 more...
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Adjectives 2
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better, alive, important, wrong, vast, tender, shy, rich, mushy, odd, helpful, gifted and 8 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
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http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Sled Dogs!
malamute, husky, wheel dog, lead dog, gee, haw, sled, line, hike, mush, on by, gang line and 31 more...
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Lost in transgenderation
An interesting list I found in the internet, on how the same word changes its meaning when used to describe a woman rather than a man.
(I'm translating from Italian, then adding new ones)courtesan, masseuse, professional, street, morals, public, easy, entertaining, enticer, willing, peripatetic, cubist and 8 more...
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Abbreviate
Is there a name for this type of word?
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Poemetica
a list of words to play Tzara's hat and make poetry
mystery, puzzle, women, hard, look, hours, intelligent, understand, shadow, slow, somebody, live and 47 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for easy.

gangerh Everyone wants stuff that's easy. We want things to be easy to use, we want things to be easier to achieve, we want everything easy. If your product or service makes peoples' lives easier, make sure you tell them.
'15 words that will make you money' Jul 2, 2009
oroboros EASY
EAST
HAST
HART
HARD Nov 3, 2008
Prolagus An easy man: a man you won't have problem with
An easy woman: a trollop.
(see my list) Jun 13, 2008