Definition of "easy" in Anglais

adjective

1. (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.

   • Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night.

2. Requiring little skill or effort.

   • It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up.
   • The teacher gave an easy test to her students.

3. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.

   • Rich people live in easy circumstances, that is, the easy life.
   • an easy chair

4. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.

   • easy manners; an easy style

5. (informal, derogatory, usually of a woman or girl) Consenting readily to sex.

   • She has a reputation for being easy; they say she slept with half the senior class.

6. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.

7. (finance, dated) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.

   • The market is easy.

adverb

1. In a relaxed or casual manner.

   • After his illness, John decided to take it easy.
   • Everything comes easy to her.

2. In a manner without strictness or harshness; gently; softly.

   • Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm.

3. Handily; at the very least.

   • This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy.

noun

1. Something that is easy.

   • Cooking the sushi was very easy for her.

verb

1. (rowing) Synonym of easy-oar.