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easy-going

easy-going is the alternative spelling of easygoing.

Meaning of easygoing

Adjective

easygoing (comparative more easygoing or easygoinger or easiergoing, superlative most easygoing or easygoingest or easiestgoing)

  1. Calm, relaxed, casual and informal.
    • He dropped gradually back into his old frivolous and easy-going ways and conditions of feeling and manner of speech, and no familiar of his could have detected anything in him that differentiated him from the weak and careless Tom of other days.1897, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Pudd’nhead Wilson] Chapter X”, in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American...
  2. Unhurried.

Forms of easy-going

comparativemore easy-going
comparativeeasy-goinger
superlativemost easy-going
superlativeeasy-goingest

Questions about easy-going

What is easy-going the alternative spelling of?
Easy-going is the alternative spelling of easygoing.

Words near easy-going in the dictionary

  1. easy targets
  2. easy-breezy
  3. easy-chair
  4. easy-chairs
  5. easy-drinking
  6. easy-going
  7. easy-goinger
  8. easy-goingest
  9. easy-like
  10. easy-oar
  11. easy-oared

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