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ez

/ˌiː ˈziː/

ez is the abbreviation 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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Adjective capitalized: EZ

EZ

  1. (US, abbreviation, informal) Abbreviation of easy.

Noun capitalized: EZ

EZ (plural EZs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of exclusion zone: a geographic area in which some sanctioning authority prohibits specific activities. See also Restricted Area.

Forms of ez

pluralEZs

Origin of ez

Phonetic rendering from the letter names.

Words formed from ez

Questions about ez

What is ez the abbreviation of?
Ez is the abbreviation of easy.
What part of speech is ez?
Ez can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce ez?
Ez is pronounced /ˌiː ˈziː/.

Words near ez in the dictionary

  1. Eyton
  2. eyup
  3. eyyy
  4. Eyzidi
  5. Eyzidism
  6. ez
  7. Ez.
  8. ezafe
  9. ezafeh
  10. ezafehs
  11. ezafes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ez (page history and authors); EZ (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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