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. - 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. - COMMODIOUSLY
In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton. - 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.