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#: {{usex|lang=en|In the middle of the room was a fluffy '''easy''' chair.   Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest '''easy''' at night.}}
#: {{usex|lang=en|In the middle of the room was a fluffy '''easy''' chair.   Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest '''easy''' at night.}}
# Requiring little [[skill]] or [[effort]], [[soft]].
# Requiring little [[skill]] or [[effort]], [[soft]].
#*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-08-10|volume=408|issue=8848|magazine={{w|The Economist}}
|title=[http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21583277-worlds-biggest-polluter-going-green-it-needs-speed-up-transition-can-china21583270-new-zealands-plan-regulate-designer-drugs-better-trying-ban-them-and-failing-new A new prescription]
|passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks '''easy''' next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
#: {{usex|lang=en|The teacher gave an '''easy''' test to her students.}}
#: {{usex|lang=en|The teacher gave an '''easy''' test to her students.}}
# {{context|informal|pejorative|of a person|lang=en}} Consenting readily to [[sex]].
# {{context|informal|pejorative|of a person|lang=en}} Consenting readily to [[sex]].

Revision as of 23:10, 26 September 2013

English

Pronunciation

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  • noicon(file)
    Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "en-us-easy.ogg" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
  • noicon(file)
    Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "En-uk-easy.ogg" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "iːzi" is not valid. See WT:LOL.

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) eesy, (deprecated template usage) esy, partly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) ese + (deprecated template usage) -y, equivalent to Lua error in Module:affix/templates at line 130: The |lang= parameter is not used by this template. Place the language code in parameter 1 instead., and partly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) aisié, past participle of (deprecated template usage) aisier, from (deprecated template usage) aise, of uncertain origin. See ease. Merged with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) ethe, (deprecated template usage) eathe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English Template:term/t, Template:term/t, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic Template:term/t, Template:term/t, from Template:term/t, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European Template:term/t. Compare also (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Saxon Template:term/t, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German Template:term/t, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse (deprecated template usage) auðr. More at ease, eath.

Adjective

easy (comparative easier, superlative easiest)

  1. (deprecated template usage) (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
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  2. Requiring little skill or effort, soft.
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  3. (deprecated template usage) (informal, derogatory, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
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Translations

comfortable — see comfortable
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Adverb

easy (comparative easier, superlative easiest)

  1. In a relaxed or casual manner
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  2. In a manner without strictness or harshness.
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  3. Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
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  4. Not difficult, not hard.
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