free and easy
free and easy adjective: casual, informal, relaxed, unrestrained.
Adjective
free and easy (comparative more free and easy, superlative most free and easy)
- Casual, informal, relaxed, unrestrained.
- He was[…] none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the firedogs in the common room, […]1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 10.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC
- The other passengers were three Norwegians, three fossil Englishmen, two snobbish do., and some jolly, good-natured, free-and-easy youths.1857, Bayard Taylor, chapter 20, in Northern Travel
- Travelling according to one's own personal schedule and preferences.
- With the increase in budget travelers coming to Singapore, a personalized recommender system has the potential to effectively provide assistance to this group of travellers to piece together free and easy travel plans.2016, Jorge L. C. Sanz, Business Analytics: Progress On Applications In Asia Pacific, page 561
Noun
free and easy (plural free and easies)
- A tavern offering informal entertainment from amateur and professional performers.
- "Then, perhaps," says I, taking the gloves out of my pocket, "you can tell me who cleaned this pair of gloves? It's a rum story," I says. "I was dining over at Lambeth, the other day, at a free-and-easy - quite promiscuous - with a public company - when some gentleman, he left these gloves behind...1850 September 14, [Charles Dickens], “Three “Detective” Anecdotes”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. A Weekly Journal., volume I, number 25, London: Office, […], →OCLC
free and easy meaning in Malayalam
free and easy in Malayalam
- relaxed, easy-going, causal
- അനപൗചാരികമായ, ലാഘവത്തോടെയുള്ള, സ്വസ്ഥമായ, ഗൗരവമില്ലാത്ത, കാര്യമായി എടുക്കാത്ത, അലസമായ
Examples of free and easy in a sentence
- "I wouldn't be so free and easy with it, if I were you."1918, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 13, in The Winds of Chance:
- The Netherlands, proud of its multicultural tolerance, its hospitality to strangers, its free and easy social ways, used to be thought of as a soft touch for would-be immigrants.2006 May 19, Ian Buruma, “Hard Luck for a Hard-Liner”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Synonyms of free and easy
Forms of free and easy
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more free and easy |
| superlative | most free and easy |
| alternative form | free-and-easy |
| Noun | |
| plural | free and easies |
Questions about free and easy
- What does free and easy mean?
- Free and easy means casual, informal, relaxed, unrestrained.
- What is free and easy in Malayalam?
- Free and easy in Malayalam is അനപൗചാരികമായ, ലാഘവത്തോടെയുള്ള, സ്വസ്ഥമായ. See Free and easy meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use free and easy in a sentence?
- "I wouldn't be so free and easy with it, if I were you."
- What part of speech is free and easy?
- Free and easy can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near free and easy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: free and easy (page history and authors); free and easy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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