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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.}} |
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# Requiring little [[skill]] or [[effort]], [[soft]]. |
# Requiring little [[skill]] or [[effort]], [[soft]]. |
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#*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-08-10|volume=408|issue=8848|magazine={{w|The Economist}} |
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|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] |
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|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.}} |
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#: {{usex|lang=en|The teacher gave an '''easy''' test to her students.}} |
#: {{usex|lang=en|The teacher gave an '''easy''' test to her students.}} |
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# {{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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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 38: 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)
- (deprecated template usage) (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
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- Requiring little skill or effort, soft.
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- (deprecated template usage) (informal, derogatory, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
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Synonyms
- (comfortable): relaxed, relaxing
- (not difficult): light, eath
- (consenting readily to sex): fast
- (requiring little skill or effort): soft, trivial
- See also Wikisaurus:easy
Antonyms
- (comfortable, at ease): uneasy, anxious
- (requiring little skill or effort): difficult, hard, uneasy, uneath, challenging
Derived terms
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Translations
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Adverb
easy (comparative easier, superlative easiest)
- In a relaxed or casual manner
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- In a manner without strictness or harshness.
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- Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
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- Not difficult, not hard.
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Anagrams
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English terms with rare senses
- English informal terms
- English derogatory terms
- Lao terms with redundant script codes
- Translations to be checked (Undetermined)
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- English adverbs
- 1000 English basic words