free-and-easy

1. 1.

   natural and unstudied

   “using their Christian names in a casual way”

   “lectured in a free-and-easy style”

   Synonymscasual

   Similarinformal

Questions about free-and-easy

What does free-and-easy mean?

free-and-easy means "natural and unstudied".

How many syllables are in free-and-easy?

free-and-easy has 5 syllables: fre-e--an-d-ea-sy. The stress falls on "an".

What is another word for free-and-easy?

Close synonyms include casual. 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 free-and-easy a common word?

free-and-easy 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.