Easy Make Easier ˈiːzi Easiest Reach I Quick

• an easy way to make bread
• reaching the summit is no easy task.
• an easy win/victory
• it's much easier if you speak the language.

easy

1. not difficult; done or obtained without a lot of effort or problems
• OPPOSITE hard
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• an easy way to make bread
• Reaching the summit is no easy task.
• an easy win/victory
• It's much easier if you speak the language.
• It's easy to forget how we lived before the internet.
• The tool is quick and easy to use.
• Their house isn't the easiest place to get to.
• There are no easy answers in cases like this.
• Several schools are within easy reach (= not far away).
• It's easy for you to criticize.
• He didn't make it easy for me to leave.
• It can't be easy for her, on her own with the children.

Extra Examples

• Doing all that while injured isn't exactly easy.
• The homepage provides easy access to commonly used links.
• The easiest solution would be to create a new storage area.
• The plant is relatively easy to identify.
• We all know the system needs fixing, but it's not that easy.
• I found the book easy to read.
• I found the exam quite easy.
• It is easy enough to see how it happened.
• It is the easiest thing in the world to blame your parents.
• vegetables that are easy to grow
• It looks deceptively easy to hit the ball into the hole.
• It was all too easy to forget why we had been sent there.
• Playing tennis is not as easy as it looks.
• The written test was ridiculously easy.
• These changes should make your job easier.
• Writing is not easy for her.
• a book designed for quick and easy reference
• It's easy for you to tell me to keep calm, but you're not in my position.
• Their success at the game did not make for an easy relationship off court.
• There are no easy answers to a problem like this.
• This encyclopedia is designed for quick and easy reference.
• It's easy for you to tell me to keep calm, but you're not in my position.
• It would be the easiest thing in the world to fall in love with him.
2. comfortable, relaxed and not worried
• OPPOSITE uneasy
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• He has not had an easy life.
• I don't feel easy about letting the kids go out alone.
• Things are getting easier for us.

Extra Examples

• He was promised a nice easy retirement.
• I've had a very easy day at work.
• I'll agree to anything for an easy life.
• She's a sociable kid who seems equally easy with children and adults.
• a sophisticated audience that feels easy with ambiguity
• He's perfectly easy about his lack of ambition.
• I felt a bit easier after that.
• Racism is never a comfortable or easy topic to raise in multicultural classrooms.
3. open to attack; not able to defend yourself
• She's an easy target for their criticisms.
• The baby fish are easy prey for birds.
4. pleasant and friendly
• SYNONYM easy-going
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• He had an easy manner.
• His easy charm soon won her over.
5. willing to have sex with many different people
6. very easy or very easily
• The whole procedure is as easy as ABC.
• Fooling him was as easy as falling off a log.
7. a person that you can easily persuade to do something, especially to give you money
• Unfortunately, my father is no easy touch.
8. a person who seems easy to defeat or cheat
• Rogue traders saw elderly people as easy meat for overcharging.
9. money that you get without having to work very hard for it
10. pleasant to listen to or look at
• The room was painted in soft pastels that were easy on the eye.
11. a choice that is thought to be easier because it involves less effort, difficulty, etc.
• They are anxious that the new course should not be seen as an easy option.
• He decided to take the easy option and give them what they wanted.
12. informal; relaxed
• Life was never going to be so free and easy again.
13. to not experience difficulties when you are doing something; to make things easy for somebody
• He was not given an altogether easy ride at the interview.
14. to have no difficulties or problems
• He’s had an easy time of it since he married Lucy.
15. used to say that you do not have a strong opinion when somebody has offered you a choice
• ‘Do you want to watch this or the news?’ ‘Oh, I'm easy. It's up to you.’
16. willing to have sex with anyone
• a woman of easy virtue
17. enjoying a comfortable way of life with plenty of money
18. to end a difficult situation by choosing the simplest solution even if it is not the best one
• He took the easy way out and didn’t go to the meeting.
• She took the easy way out and paid someone to write the article for her.
19. close to something
• The house is within easy reach of schools and sports facilities.
• Verona and Padua are both within easy reach for day trips.
• a holiday town within reach of Marseilles

Word Origin

• Middle English (also in the sense ‘comfortable, tranquil’): from Old French aisie, past participle of aisier ‘put at ease, facilitate’, from the phrase a aise ‘at ease’.