easy going

1. 1.

   easy unobstructed progress

   “after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing”

   Synonymsplain sailingclear sailing

   Broaderprogress

Questions about easy going

What does easy going mean?

easy going means "easy unobstructed progress".

What is another word for easy going?

Close synonyms include plain sailing, clear sailing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is easy going a common word?

easy going is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.