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  1. comfortable or calm; free from worry, pain, etc.: They both retired and went off to lead an easy life in the Bahamas. easy about I don't feel easy about leaving him alone in the house all day. with an easy mind/conscience With the harvest finished, I was able to relax with an easy mind / conscience.

  2. easy, facile, simple, light, effortless, smooth mean not demanding effort or involving difficulty. easy is applicable either to persons or things imposing tasks or to activity required by such tasks. an easy college course. facile often adds to easy the connotation of undue haste or shallowness.

  3. The most common sense of easy describes something that is simple and requires very little effort or work. This sense is an antonym of words such as difficult, challenging, or tough. Easily means in a way without difficulty. The word ease can mean a lack of stress or difficulty.

  4. A1. not difficult: an easy choice. He thought the exam was very easy. [ + to do sth ] It's easy to see why he's so popular. Fewer examples. These new sewing machines are easy to use. Students will find the course relatively easy. It's not going to be easy to find a replacement for you.

  5. If you describe an action or activity as easy, you mean that it is done in a confident, relaxed way. If someone is easy about something, they feel relaxed and confident about it. She is laughing and joking and making easy conversation with people she has never met before. He was an easy person to talk to.

  6. Easy applies to tasks that require little effort: a recipe that is easy to prepare; an easy hike around the lake. Simple implies a lack of complexity that facilitates understanding or performance: instructions that are simple to follow; a simple problem that took little time to fix.

  7. The adjective easy can describe anything that comes without too much effort, like your baseball team's easy win, or your dad's easy recipe for nachos. Something that's easy isn't at all difficult — it just seems to fall into place.