Easy
Easy , adjective
[Old French aisié, French aisé, prop. past participle of Old French aisier. See Ease, transitive verb]
1.
At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint
(a)
Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy.
(b)
Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind.
(c)
Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.
The easy vigor of a line.
2.
Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing.
Easy ways to die.
3.
Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.
It were an easy leap.
4.
Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.
5.
Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.
He gained their easy hearts.
He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
6.
Moderate; sparing; frugal. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
7.
(Commerce) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight.
Collocations (1)
Honors are easy (Card Playing) , said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points.