easy

adj

1. Comfortable; at ease.

   “Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night.”

   ““[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. 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.””

2. 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.”

   “Now the easiest sell in traveldom is made even easier.”

   “I realized this all too well when as a seminarian I got stuck with the job of recruiting the washees for a Maundy Thursday service. It's much easier to be the one down on the floor with the basin[…]”

   “As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.”

3. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.

   “Rich people live in easy circumstances, that is, the easy life.”

   “an easy chair”

4. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.

   “easy manners; an easy style”

   “the easy vigour of a line”

5. (derogatory, informal, usually)Consenting readily to sex.

   “She has a reputation for being easy; they say she slept with half the senior class.”

6. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.

   “He gain'd their easy hearts.”

   “He is[…] too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.”

7. (dated)Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.

   “The market is easy.”

adv

1. In a relaxed or casual manner.

   “After his illness, John decided to take it easy.”

   “Everything comes easy to her.”

   “We immediately threw out all the little things we had with us, ſuch as biſcuits, apples, &c. and after that one of our oars or wings; but ſtill deſcending, we caſt away the other wing, and then the governail ; having likewiſe had the precaution, for fear of accidents, while the Balloon was filling, partly to looſen and make it go eaſy, I now ſucceeded in attempting to reach without the Car, and unſcrewing the moulinet, with all its apparatus; I likewiſe caſt that into the ſea.”

2. In a manner without strictness or harshness; gently; softly.

   “Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm.”

3. Handily; at the very least.

   “This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy.”

noun

1. (informal, rare)Something that is easy.

   “Virtually all of the "easies" are the first watermark and the "toughs" are the second.”

   “Run past the nasties, kill the easies.”

   “Make the easies a bit tougher by shaping slightly away from the A position.”

2. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter E.

verb

1. Synonym of easy-oar.

intj

1. (informal)Requesting deintensification or a halt.