Definition of Easy

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Definition of Easy

Easy

At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint

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.

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.

Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.

Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.

Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.

Moderate; sparing; frugal.

Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight.

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Easy Quotations

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Ronald Reagan

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince Lombardi

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin Franklin

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mohandas Gandhi

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F. Kennedy

Easy Translations

easy in Afrikaans is maklik
easy in Danish is let, nem
easy in Dutch is licht, vlot, makkelijk
easy in Finnish is helppo
easy in German is unschwer, leicht
easy in Italian is semplice, poco pesante
easy in Latin is facilis
easy in Norwegian is behagelig, rolig, lett

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