Word Meanings - EASY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight. Honors are easy , said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points. Syn. -- Quiet; comfortable; manageable; tranquil;

Additional info about word: EASY

Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight. Honors are easy , said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points. Syn. -- Quiet; comfortable; manageable; tranquil; calm; facile; unconcerned. (more info) 1. At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint; as: Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy. Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style. "The easy vigor of a line." Pope. 2. Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing. "Easy ways to die." Shak. 3. Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory. It were an easy leap. Shak. 4. Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion. 5. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready. He gained their easy hearts. Dryden. He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch. Sir W. Scott. 6. Moderate; sparing; frugal. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EASY)

• Accessible
• Affable
• approachable
• easy
• conversible
• affable
• Courteous
• accessible
• condescending
• gracious
• sociable
• gentle
• complaisant
• urbane
• polite
• Commodious
• Ample
• convenient
• spacious
• suitable
• comfortable
• Companionable
• Pleasant
• convertible
• friendly
• agreeable
• gregarious
• Equable
• Uniform
• regular
• proportionate
• even
• smooth

Related words: (words related to EASY)

• URBANE
  Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• EQUABLENESS
  Quality or state of being equable.
• POLITENESS
  1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity;
• POLITE
  1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• AMPLENESS
  The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.
• UNIFORMLY
  In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• CONVENIENTLY
  In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• COMMODIOUS
  Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house. "A commodious drab." Shak. "Commodious gold." Pope. The haven was not commodious to winter in. Acts.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• MESOCUNEIFORM; MESOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
• ANTHROPOLITE
  A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• DISCOMFORTABLE
  1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.
• UNPOLITE
  Not polite; impolite; rude. -- Un`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Un`po*lite"ness, n.