Easy Definition
- Capable of being accomplished or done with no difficulty.
- gotten and spent or lost with equal ease
- be careful! go slowly! etc.
- pleasant to look at; attractive
- to use or consume with restraint
go easy on the table salt
- to deal with leniently
to go easy on traffic violators
Other Word Forms of Easy
Adjective
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Easy
Origin of Easy
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From Middle English eesy, esy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), past participle of aisier (“to put at ease”), from aise (“empty space, elbow room, opportunity”), of uncertain origin. See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“not difficult, easy”), from Old English ēaþe, īeþe (“easy, smooth, not difficult”), from Proto-Germanic *auþaz, *auþijaz (“easy, pleasing”), from *auþiz (“vacant, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *aut- (“empty, lonely”). Compare also Old Saxon ōþi (“easy, vacant, empty”), Old High German ōdi (“easy, effortless, vacant, empty”), Old Norse auðr (“easy, vacant, empty”). More at ease, eath.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English esi from Old French aaisie past participle of aaisier to put at ease a- to (from Latin ad- ad-) aise ease ease
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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