easy

Meaning

1. Comfortable; at ease.
2. Requiring little skill or effort.
3. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
4. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
5. (informal) Consenting readily to sex.
6. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
7. Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.

simple

not difficult

in easy circumstances

on easy street

no trouble

well-situated

apt to

degage

easily understood

hands-down

liable to

likely to

not heavy

unstarched

without trouble

non-serious

nothing to be done

gently-sloping

bearish tone

not serious

be buoyant

be not difficult

good chance

easily done

over-free

not proper

without difficully

be pleasurable

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈiːzi/

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 (“empty, lonely”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-. Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, all meaning "easy, vacant, empty." More at ease, eath.

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