easy
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1. easy - Noun
2. easy - Adjective
3. easy - Verb
4. easy - Adverb
5. easy - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint
Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy.
Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind.
Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.
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.
Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.
Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.
Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.
Moderate; sparing; frugal.
Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight.
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Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.
Beginning is easy – Continuing is hard.
A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
It's easy to promise, but hard to give.