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Definition: FREE AND EASY |
FREE AND EASY1. Unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] ``Sal and her free and easy ways.'' --W. Black. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cheerfulness | Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive. |
Freedom | Free and easy; at ease, at one's ease; degage, quite at home; wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished. |
Friendship | Acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow well met, free and easy; welcome. |
Insolence | Impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking; jaunty, janty; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, "full of sound and fury ". |
Rashness | Hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained; headlong, headstrong; breakneck; foolhardy; harebrained; precipitate, impulsive. overconfident, overweening; venturesome, venturous; adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier; janty, jaunty, free and easy. |
Sociality | Free and easy, hall fellow well met, familiar, on visiting terms, acquainted. |
Vanity | Unabashed, unblushing; unconstrained, unceremonious; free and easy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FREE AND EASY |
| English words defined with "FREE AND EASY": Sans-souci. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FREE AND EASY": FREE AND EASY JOHNS ♦ Sans Souci. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Free and Easy (1941) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
Expression using "FREE AND EASY": free and easy manners. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
free and easy | 21 |
free and easy money | 8 |
free and easy web site maker | 6 |
free and easy web page designer | 5 |
free and easy wanderer | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FREE AND EASY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pa teklif (without ceremony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | frank (Frank), vrýpostig (brazen, impertinent, rude), vrýmoedig, vrý (enough, fairly, free, quite, rather, relatively, sufficiently, unchecked, unoccupied, vacant), ongegeneerd, ongedwongen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | senĝena. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | remseä (jaunty), rempseä (jaunty), kursailematon (unceremonious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zwanglos (casual, casually, free, informal, lighthearted, relaxed, unceremonious, unceremoniously, unconventional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kedvesen közvetlen, könnyed (airy, colloquial, ethereal, facile, fluent, graceful, jaunty, light, lightsome, off hand, off-handed, tripping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | leluasa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 無礼講 (putting aside rank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぶれい"う (putting aside rank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eefray anday easyay sem‐cerimônia, desembaraçado (clear, clinking, disengaged, free, resourceful, spanking, sprightly, unashamed, unencumbered, untrammelled), íntima. (various references) indecent (blue, dirty, gross, hoggish, immodestly, improper, indecent, lewd, naughty, racy, unprintable, unseemly), degajat (airily, breezy, debonair, easy, free, informal, untrammelled). (various references) otvungen (free, informal, unceremonious, unconstrained, unrestrained), ogenerad (airy, cool, jaunty, unabashed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-f-n-r-s-y" | |
-3 letters: enserfed, fedayeen, serenade, yearends. | |
-4 letters: afeared, aneared, daresay, deafens, deanery, defense, defrays, endears, fedayee, feeders, fenders, needers, redeyes, refeeds, sneered, yearend, yearned. | |
-5 letters: afeard, anears, arenas, deafen, deafer, defers, defray, denars, denary, denser, derays, earned, endear, enders, enserf, erased, faders, faenas, farads, feared, feased, feeder, fender, fraena, frayed, neared, needer, ranees, redans, redefy. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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