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easie

/ˈiːzi/

easie is the obsolete spelling of easy.

Meaning of easy

Adjective

easy (comparative easier or more easy, superlative easiest or most easy)

  1. (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
    • Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night.
    Synonyms:
    relaxed, relaxing
  2. Requiring little skill or effort.
    • It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up.
    Synonyms:
    soft, trivial, facile
  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.
    • easy manners; an easy style
  5. (derogatory, informal, usually) Consenting readily to sex.
    • She has a reputation for being easy; they say she slept with half the senior class.
    Synonyms:
    fast
  6. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
    • He gain'd their easy hearts.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

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Words that rhyme with easie

Questions about easie

What is easie the obsolete spelling of?
Easie is the obsolete spelling of easy.
How do you pronounce easie?
Easie is pronounced /ˈiːzi/.

Words near easie in the dictionary

  1. easest
  2. easeth
  3. Eash
  4. Eashes
  5. EASI
  6. easie
  7. easied
  8. easier
  9. easier said than done
  10. easier than falling off a log
  11. easier-peasier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: easie (page history and authors); easy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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