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easier

Syllables: ea·si·erUK/ˈiː.zi.ə//ˈi.zi.ɚ/

easier is the comparative form 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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Adverb

easier

  1. more easily

Phrases with easier

Questions about easier

What does easier mean?
Easier means more easily.
What is easier the comparative form of?
Easier is the comparative form of easy.
What part of speech is easier?
Easier is an adverb.
How do you pronounce easier?
Easier is pronounced /ˈiː.zi.ə/ (UK).

Words near easier in the dictionary

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

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