easy
easy
/ˈiːzi/
1 not difficult; done or obtained without a lot of effort or problems
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 to do something 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).
easy for somebody (to do something) 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.
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all too easy
as easy as 1, 2, 3
as easy as ABC
2 comfortable, relaxed and not worried
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.
She's an easy target for their criticisms.
The baby fish are easy prey for birds.
He had an easy manner.
His easy charm soon won her over.
5 not usually before noun (informal, offensive) an offensive way to describe somebody, most often a woman, who you disapprove of because you think they are willing to have sex with many different people Idioms
easy
/ˈiːzi/
(easier, easiest)
used to tell somebody to be careful when doing something
Easy with that chair—one of its legs is loose.
Easy, girl—you'll knock me over!
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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’.