easy
Syllables: ea·sy/ˈiːzi/
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Northern Ireland/ˈi.ze/
easy adjective: comfortable; at ease.
Adjective
easy (comparative easier or more easy, superlative easiest or most easy)
- Comfortable; at ease.
- Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night.
- Mrs. Jennings left them earlier than usual; for she could not be easy till the Middletons and Palmers were able to grieve as much as herself […]1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 31, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
- Requiring little skill or effort.
- It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up.
- The teacher gave an easy test to her students.
- Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
- Rich people live in easy circumstances, that is, the easy life.
- an easy chair
- Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
- easy manners; an easy style
- the easy vigour of a line1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC
- Consenting readily to sex.
- She has a reputation for being easy; they say she slept with half the senior class.
- Synonyms:
- fast
- 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
- He is[…] too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co....
- Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
- The market is easy.
Adverb
Noun (1)
easy (plural easies)
- Something that is easy.
- Virtually all of the "easies" are the first watermark and the "toughs" are the second.1995 September 19, Greg Ioannou, “watermarks and 11d plum”, in rec.collecting.stamps (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Apr 2026
- Run past the nasties, kill the easies.2001 February 24, Nib / Shu, “nib reaches a milestone!!!”, in microsoft.public.games.zone.asherons_call (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Apr 2026
Verb
easy (third-person singular simple present easies, present participle easying, simple past and past participle easied)
Interjection
- Requesting deintensification or a halt.
Noun (2) capitalized: Easy
Easy
- radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter E.
- Synonyms:
- Echo
easy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
easy in Hindi
- requiring little skill or effort
- सरल saral, आसान āsān, सुलभ sulabh
easy in Tamil
- requiring little skill or effort
- எளிதான eḷitāṉa
- unharshly, gently
- பொறு poṟu
easy in Marathi
- requiring little skill or effort
- सुलभ sulabh
easy in Urdu
- requiring little skill or effort
- آسان āsān, سرل saral
More languagesFewer languages
- easy in Bengali
- সহজ śohoj, সহল śohol
- easy in Telugu
- సులభము sulabhamu, సుళువు suḷuvu, సులువు suluvu
- easy in Malayalam
- അനായാസം anāyāsaṁ, എളുപ്പം eḷuppaṁ, അനായാസ anāyāsa, സരളം saraḷaṁ
- easy in Kannada
- ಸುಲಭ sulabha
- easy in Punjabi
- ਅਸਾਨ asān
- easy in Gujarati
- સરળ saraḷ
- easy in Odia
- ସୋଜା sojā, ସାଧାରଣ sādhāraṇa
- easy in Sanskrit
- सुलभ sulabha, सरल sarala, लघु laghu
- easy in Sinhala
- ලේසි lēsi
- easy in Assamese
- সহজ xohoz
- easy in Nepali
- सजिलो sajilo, सिधो sidho
- easy in Tagalog
- madaling, madali
- easy in Arabic
- سَهْل sahl
- easy in Malay
- mudah
- easy in Indonesian
- mudah, gampang, gampangan
- easy in Persian
- آسان âsân, راحت râhat
- easy in Thai
- ง่าย ngâai
- easy in Vietnamese
- dễ dàng, dễ
- easy in Myanmar
- လွယ် lwai
Examples of easy in a sentence
- But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs.2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2020:
- You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag!2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:
Synonyms of easy
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- as a duck takes to water
- basic
- prosaic
- no-fuss
- easy as 123
- easy as ABC
- easy as cake
- easy as pie
- easy as falling off a log
- easy as rolling off a log
- easy as toffee
- easy-breezy
- easy peasy
- easy peasy Japanesey
- easy peasy lemon squeezy
- effortless
- idiotproof
- like a duck takes to water
- like falling off a log
- like riding a bike
- like robbing a baby
- like shelling peas
- like shooting fish in a barrel
- like taking candy from a baby
- natural
- painless
- piss-easy
- plain-sailing
- simple
- simple as kiss your hand
Antonyms
Forms of easy
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | easier |
| comparative | more easy |
| superlative | easiest |
| superlative | most easy |
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | eazy |
| alternative form (archaic, dialectal) | aisy |
| alternative form (obsolete) | easie |
| alternative US abbreviation (informal) | EZ |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | easier |
| superlative | easiest |
| Noun | |
| plural | easies |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | easies |
| present participle | easying |
| past participle | easied |
| past | easied |
Origin of easy
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, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, auð-, Icelandic auð (adverb), auð-, all meaning "easy." More at ease, eath.
Words formed from easy
- easy as falling
- rolling off a log
- easily
- easiness
- easy aces
- easy as 123
- easy as ABC
- easy as cake
- easy as kiss my hand
- easy as pie
- easy as toffee
- easybeat
- easy-breezy
- easy chair
- easy-chair
- easycore
- easy does it
- easy-drinking
- easy for you to say
- easy-going
- easygoing
- easyish
- easy like
- easy listening
- easy mark
- easy meat
- easy money
- easy on the eye(s)
- easy peas(e)y
- easy-peas(e)y
- easy Japanesey
- easy lemon squeezy
- easy pumpkin peasy
- easy pickings
- easy prey
- easy reader
- easy street
- easy target
- free and easy
- free-and-easy
- go easy
- hard-easy effect
- have an easy time of it
- have it easy
- honors easy
- honours easy
- I'm easy
- it is easy to be wise after the event
- it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog
- jack-easy
- my very easy method just speeds up naming planets
- NP-easy
- over easy
- overeasy
- piss-easy
- rest easy
- semi-easy chair
- stand easy
- steezy
- supereasy
Phrases with easy
- Big Easy
- goes easy
- gone easy
- take easy
- took easy
- went easy
- easy likes
- easy marks
- easy peasy
- going easy
- rests easy
- sleep easy
44 more phrasesFewer phrases
- taken easy
- takes easy
- easy chairs
- easy peasey
- had it easy
- has it easy
- rested easy
- taking easy
- breathe easy
- easy targets
- resting easy
- take it easy
- took it easy
- breathed easy
- breathes easy
- taken it easy
- takes it easy
- breathing easy
- having it easy
- taking it easy
- easy on the eye
- easy on the eyes
- easy come, easy go
- easy peasy Japanesey
- woman of easy virtue
- women of easy virtue
- easy as one two three
- take the easy way out
- took the easy way out
- had an easy time of it
- has an easy time of it
- taken the easy way out
- takes the easy way out
- easy as one, two, three
- taking the easy way out
- easy peasy lemon squeezy
- easy peasy pumpkin peasy
- easy as falling off a log
- easy as rolling off a log
- easy peasy mac and cheesy
- having an easy time of it
- easy peasy, mac and cheesy
- as easy as rolling off a log
- there isn't any easy way to say this
Words that rhyme with easy
Questions about easy
- What does easy mean?
- Easy means comfortable; at ease.
- What is easy in Hindi?
- Easy in Hindi is सरल (saral), आसान (āsān), सुलभ (sulabh). See Easy meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use easy in a sentence?
- But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
- What part of speech is easy?
- Easy can be an adjective, an adverb, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce easy?
- Easy is pronounced /ˈiːzi/.
Words near easy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: easy (page history and authors); Easy (page history and authors); അനായാസ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಸುಲಭ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ସାଧାରଣ (Odia) (page history and authors); सजिलो (Nepali) (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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