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FromMiddle Englishesy,eesy, partly fromMiddle Englishese(“ease”) +-y, equivalent toease +‎-y, and partly fromAnglo-Normaneisé fromOld Frenchaisié(“eased, at ease, at leisure”), past participle ofaisier(“to put at ease”), fromaise(“empty space, elbow room, opportunity”), of uncertain origin. Seeease. Merged withMiddle Englishethe,eathe(“easy”), fromOld Englishīeþe, fromProto-Germanic*auþuz, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂éwtus(“empty, lonely”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ew-. Compare alsoOld Saxonōþi,Old High Germanōdi,Old Norseauðr, all meaning "easy, vacant, empty." More atease,eath.

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Adjective

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easy (comparativeeasierormoreeasy,superlativeeasiestormosteasy)

  1. (now rare except in certain expressions)Comfortable; atease.
    Now that I know it's taken care of, I can resteasy at night.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      “[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are alleasy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
  2. Requiring littleskill oreffort.
    It's ofteneasy to wake up but hard to get up.
    The teacher gave aneasy test to her students.
    • 1963, American Society of Travel Agents,ASTA Travel News, volume32, page55:
      Now theeasiest sell in traveldom is made eveneasier.
    • 1995, Margaret Guenther,Toward Holy Ground, page43:
      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 mucheasier to be the one down on the floor with the basin[…]
    • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, inThe Economist‎[1], volume408, number8848, archived fromthe original on21 September 2020:
      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 lookseasy 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.
    • 2015 October 27,Matt Preston,The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better‎[2], Plum,→ISBN, page192:
      You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own iseasy, 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.
    • 2022 September 10, Matt McFarland, “Why your car’s speedometer goes up to 160 mph (even when your car can’t)”, inCNN Business‎[3]:
      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 theeasiest place on the speedometer for the driver to read.
    • 2025 May 27, John Fritze, Angélica Franganillo Díaz and Devan Cole, “Trump asks Supreme Court to make it easier to deport migrants to South Sudan and other third-party countries”, inCNN‎[4]:
      President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to make iteasier 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.
  3. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
    Rich people live ineasy circumstances, that is, theeasy life.
    aneasy chair
  4. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
    easy manners; aneasy style
  6. (informal, derogatory, of a woman) Consenting readily tosex.
    She has a reputation for beingeasy; they say she slept with half the senior class.
  7. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
  8. (finance, dated) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed totight.
    The market iseasy.

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Translations

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requiring little skill or effort
consenting readily to sex
comfortable—seecomfortable
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Adverb

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easy (comparativeeasier,superlativeeasiest)

  2. In arelaxed orcasual manner.
    After his illness, John decided totake iteasy.
    Everything comeseasy to her.
    • 1786, John Jeffries,Jean-Pierre Blanchard,A narrative of the two aerial Voyages of Dr. J. with Mons. Blanchard: with meteorological observations and remarks.‎[5], page45:
      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 thegovernail ; having likewiſe had the precaution, for fear of accidents, while the Balloon was filling, partly to looſen and make it goeaſy, 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.
  4. In a manner without strictness or harshness;gently;softly.
    Jane wenteasier on him after he broke his arm.
  6. Handily;at the very least.
    This project will cost 15 million dollars,easy.

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unharshly, gently

Noun

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easy (pluraleasies)

  1. Something that is easy.
    Cooking the sushi was veryeasy for her.

Verb

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easy (third-person singular simple presenteasies,present participleeasying,simple past and past participleeasied)

  1. (rowing)Synonym ofeasy-oar.

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Adjective

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easy

  1. alternative form ofesy

Adverb

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easy

  1. alternative form ofesy
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