Easy /(?)/
Eas·y
Easy
a.
- At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint
- Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing.
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Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.
It were an easy leap.
- Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.
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Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.
He gained their easy hearts.
He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
- Moderate; sparing; frugal. [Obs.]
- Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight. (Com.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Honors are easy
- said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points.