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say it: EE-zee
easy is an adjective and adverb meaning "posing no difficulty; requiring little effort". It carries 15 recorded senses.
posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
“an easy job”
“an easy problem”
“an easy victory”
“the house is easy to heat”
“satisfied with easy answers”
“took the easy way out of his dilemma”
free from worry or anxiety
“knowing that I had done my best, my mind was easy”
“an easy good-natured manner”
“by the time the child faced the actual problem of reading she was familiar and at ease with all the elements words”
in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
“they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards”
“easy living”
“a prosperous family”
“his family is well-situated financially”
“well-to-do members of the community”
less in demand and therefore readily obtainable
“commodities are easy this quarter”
economics
obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally
“easy money”
economics
with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily')
“she was easily excited”
“was easily confused”
“he won easily”
“this china breaks very easily”
“success came too easy”
colloquialism
in a relaxed manner; or without hardship
“just wanted to take it easy”
“the judge went easy on the young defendant”
colloquialism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for easy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.