Easy

Definition: Easy

Easy

Adjective

1. Posing no difficulty; requiring little effort; "an easy job"; "an easy problem"; "an easy victory"; "the house is easy to heat"; "satisfied with easy answers"; "took the easy way out of his dilemma".

2. Not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace".

3. Free from worry or anxiety; "knowing that I had done my best, my mind was easy"; "an easy good-natured manner"; "by the time the child faced the actual problem of reading she was familiar and at ease with all the elements words".

4. Affording pleasure; "easy good looks".

5. Having little impact; "an easy pat on the shoulder"; "gentle rain"; "a gentle breeze"; "a soft (or light) tapping at the window".

6. In fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich; "they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards"; "easy living"; "a prosperous family"; "his family is well-situated financially"; "well-to-do members of the community".

7. Not harsh; causing little distress; "an easy penalty".

8. Readily exploited or tricked; "an easy mark"; "an easy victim".

9. Marked by moderate steepness; "an easy climb"; "a gentle slope".

10. : performing adroitly and without effort; "her easy grace"; "a facile hand".

11. : not strict; "an easy teacher"; "easy standards"; "lenient rules".

12. : affording comfort; "soft light that was easy on the eyes".

13. : casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior".

14. : (economics) less in demand and therefore readily obtainable; "commodities are easy this quarter".

15. : (economics) plentiful and therefore at low interest rates; easy to come by; "easy money".

Adverb

1. With ease; "she was easily excited"; "was easily confused"; "he won easily"; "this china breaks very easily"; (`easy' is used informally for `easily' as in "success came too easy").

2. Without speed; "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly' as in "please go slow; I want to see the sights").

3. (informal) in a relaxed manner; or without hardship; "just wanted to take it easy" (`soft' is nonstandard).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "easy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Easy \Eas"y\, adjective. [Comparative Easier; superlative Easiest.]. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

EASY

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Easy

Elegance

Graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected, natural, unlabored; mellifluous; euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic; numerose, rhythmical.

Slowness

Adjective: slow, slack; tardy; dilatory; (inactive); gentle, easy; leisurely; deliberate, gradual; insensible, imperceptible; glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like; creeping; Verb: reptatorial.

Crosswords: Easy

Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me you have a wife and two adorable childrenand this madness between us can't go on any longer (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht)

It's awfully easy to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly (Brief Encounter; writing credit: David Lean, written by Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, and Ronald Neame.)

Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part (The Horse Whisperer; writing credit: Eric Roth and Richard LaGravenese. Based on the novel by Nicholas Evans.)

Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

Easy you don't lead 'em so much (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr)

It's so easy (Mr. Bartender (It's So Easy); performing artist: SUGAR RAY)

Easy to give in (Easy to Be Hard; performing artist: Three Dog Night)

Fallin' in love is such an easy thing to do (Everybody Plays the Fool; performing artist: Aaron Neville)

Is it easy to sleep in the bed that we made (What It Takes; performing artist: Aerosmith)

It started so easy (Lost In Love; performing artist: Air Supply)

The easy way is always mined. (references; author: unknown)

It is easy to be flexible when one is spineless! (references; author: unknown)

It is seldom easy to do what's right or right to do what's easy. (references; author: unknown)

To every complex problem there is an easy answer, and it is wrong! (references; author: unknown)

Learning history is easy. Learning its lessons is almost impossible. (references; author: unknown)

Easy Money (2002)

It Ain't Easy (1972)

Easy Out (1971)

Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Dead Easy (1970)

I'M EASY (performing artist: KEITH CARRADINE)

IT'S SO EASY (performing artist: LINDA RONSTADT)

Easy Lover (performing artist: Phillip Bailey & Phil Collins)

It Don't Come Easy (performing artist: Ringo Starr)

Mr. Bartender (It's So Easy) (performing artist: SUGAR RAY)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• EASY Software AG: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Easy Cook Long Grain Rice (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Digital Photography: 99 Easy Tips to Make You Look Like a Pro! (reference)

• 1999 Complete US Zip-Area Code Directory: 3-way easy lookup for all US zip codes and area codes (reference)

• Easy Dollars: At the Pick 3-Pick 4 Daily Lotto (reference)

• Musichound Lounge: The Essential Album Guide to Martini Music & Easy Listening (reference)

• A Year of Delicious Low-Fat Diet Desserts: 365 Quick and Easy Low-Calorie Recipes (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Imm Easy Reference - Diskette Windows (reference)

• Junior Library Guild - Easy Reading (reference)

• Quick & Easy Crochet (reference)

• Quick & Easy Painting (reference)

• Take It Easy (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Easy Rider (reference)

• Radiohead: Meeting People is Easy (reference)

• The Big Easy (reference)

• Wai Lana Yoga: Easy Series (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• As Easy As 123 (Popsicle/The Little Old Lady From Pasedena/Drag City) (reference)

• Astronomy Made Easy (reference)

• Square Dancing Made Easy (reference)

• The Best of Marshall Crenshaw: This Is Easy (reference)

• Easy Does It (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Timex T318S Easy to Read Alarm Clock Radio (reference)

• Easy Translator Deluxe 4 (reference)

• Family Trees Quick & Easy 5.0 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Easy Chair Highchair - Zoo Lou (reference)

• Easy Comfort Plus Carrier (reference)

• Black & Decker X420 Quick 'N Easy Iron with Automatic Shut-Off (reference)

• Dirt Devil CE7000 Easy Steamer Carpet Extractor (reference)

• HomeRight C800576 Easy Wash Stick with Brush (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Poxviruses are very easy to isolate, and will grow in a variety of cell cultures, producing characteristic hemorrhagic pocks on the chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM). Credit: CDC.

The easy way - a suspension bridge Triangulation party of William M. Scaife. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A little relaxation at Bear Springs Camp Easy come- Easy go --- Shooting craps on a day off Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A flock of sea gulls taking it easy. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Lieutenant Commander Leonard Baker taking it easy reading the newspaper. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Tuna hooked by pole and line fishing makes easy prey for an opportunistic shark. Credit: Fisheries.

Public boat ramps allow easy access to America's recreational fisheries. Credit: Fisheries.

Figure 37. Falconetti and Vaissiere turning net devised by Raymond Vaissiere and Claude Falconetti of the University of Nice in 1972. Top: the equipment. Bottom: in operating position. This net was designed to capture plankton and the larvae of benthic species at a small distance off the bottom. It was able to stay under water for prolonged periods and easy to use. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 47. Sprengel pycnometer, first described by the German chemist Hermann Sprengel in 1873. He had used this instrument for a number of years. It had great precision and was easy to fill. Later the German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald partially modified it, replacing the original U tube with a single-sided one. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Gourds make an excellent home for cavity dwelling birds and are easy to make. Credit: Dot Paul.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Thus it was easy, and almost natural for children, by a tacit, and scarce avoidable consent, to make way for the father's authority and government. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Her wish of shewing you attention could not be doubted, and his being a disengaged and social man makes it all easy.

For he had an expectation that the conduct of his future self would give him the clue he missed, and would render the solution of these riddles easy.

Jean Valjean did all, smoothed all, conciliated all made all easy.

It was easy to be good

Just study a few easy lessons at home

It is not easy to express the joy I was in upon the unexpected hope of once more seeing my beloved country, and the dear pledges I had left in it.

It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings

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Health

Raccoons are easy to recognize. (references)

Fatigue or easy tiring is another common symptom. (references)

Try to keep the things you need within easy reach. (references)

Business

Selling to German government entities is not always an easy process. (references)

Additionally, a wide variety of products for easy maintenance and comfort on board. (references)

Synthetic flooring has become another choice due to its durability and easy installation. (references)

Children

Malawi

Only one-third of children have easy access to safe drinking water. (references)

Oman

Students in wheelchairs have easy access to Sultan Qaboos University. (references)

Cambodia

Poverty and domestic violence often drive children to live on the streets; domestic NGO's estimate there are more than 10,000 street children in Phnom Penh alone, who are easy targets for sexual abuse and exploitation. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

Passports increasingly are easy to get. (references)

China

On December 20, 2000, Hunan Star TV's talk show, Take it Easy, became the first program in to air a program talking frankly about homosexual life. (references)

Croatia

As a result, this had the effect of reinforcing the legal precedence of temporary occupants over that of property owners, and it provided an easy means for hard-line officials to obstruct the process of minority returns. (references)

Economic History

Costa Rica

They view franchising as an easy market entry strategy. (references)

Brazil

Setting up new companies is relatively easy and inexpensive. (references)

Netherlands

The Dutch market is not easy to conquer for U.S. manufacturers. (references)

Human Rights

Bulgaria

Human rights observers also have experienced some difficulty in obtaining information that previously had been easy to obtain, such as information from prosecutors. (references)

Guatemala

The military continued to honor the 1994 presidential order to suspend all conscription, including forced recruitment, as the armed forces found it relatively easy to recruit young male volunteers from impoverished areas using pay and education incentives. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The law provides that only the Federation Supreme Court will carry out questioning of protected witnesses with defense counsel permitted to submit written questions; however, international observers note that it is often easy to deduce the identity of the protected witness. (references)

Political Economy

PHILIPPINES

Achieving that goal will not be easy. (references)

UNITED KINGDOM

Structural reforms and open market policies make it relatively easy for U.S. firms to enter UK markets. (references)

BANGLADESH

Many factories are located in structures that were not designed adequately for industrial use, nor for the easy evacuation of large work forces. (references)

Trade

China

Import licenses are not easy to obtain. (references)

Spain

Only the largest companies have easy access to these types of loans. (references)

Japan

Bank and other credit cards are easy to obtain and are widely accepted. (references)

Travel

Austria

Make things easy for your customer. (references)

Bahrain

Cabs are easy to find in downtown Manama. (references)

Spain

A hotel is always easy to find when traveling in Spain. (references)

Women

Bangladesh

Public interest litigation against easy access to acid remained pending at year's end. (references)

Worker Rights

Brunei

While unions are legal and easy to register, conditions are not conducive to the development of trade unions. (references)

Bangladesh

The border with India is loosely controlled, especially around Jessore and Benapole, making illegal border crossings easy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "easy": a man easy to deal with ♦ a man who is easy to approach ♦ a woman of easy virtue ♦ an easy lay ♦ as easy as pie ♦ as easy as shelling peas ♦ as easy as smth. ♦ at an easy pace ♦ be easy ♦ be easy as anything ♦ be easy as smth. ♦ be easy of access ♦ be easy on ♦ be in easy street ♦ be on easy street ♦ be on easy terms with smb. ♦ easy answer ♦ easy area ♦ easy as pie ♦ easy as winking ♦ easy ascent ♦ easy chair ♦ easy circumstances ♦ easy come easy go ♦ easy descent ♦ easy does it! ♦ easy FOX ♦ easy goal ♦ easy going ♦ easy job ♦ easy learning ♦ easy life ♦ easy manner ♦ easy mark ♦ easy monetary policy ♦ easy money ♦ easy now! ♦ easy of access ♦ easy of belief ♦ easy of digestion ♦ easy on the eye ♦ easy profits ♦ easy question ♦ easy reach ♦ easy rider ♦ easy task ♦ easy to handle ♦ easy to persuade ♦ easy to reach ♦ easy to remember ♦ easy to survey ♦ easy to understand ♦ easy to use ♦ find it easy to ♦ free and easy ♦ free and easy manners ♦ go by easy journeys ♦ go easy ♦ go easy on ♦ he is not easy to get on with ♦ Honors are easy ♦ in easy ♦ in easy circumstances ♦ in easy stages ♦ it is easy to understand ♦ it is mighty easy ♦ it's as easy as abc ♦ it's as easy as pie ♦ it's very easy ♦ lead an easy ♦ lead an easy life ♦ life at easy ♦ make easy ♦ making easy ♦ nice and easy ♦ nothing great is easy ♦ on easy street ♦ on easy terms ♦ rest easy ♦ Sankyo easy robot formula ♦ stand easy ♦ standing at easy ♦ take it easy ♦ take things easy ♦ To ride easy ♦ too easy ♦ too easy going ♦ within easy reach. Additional references.

Beginning with "easy": easy-angled, easy-availability, easy-blend, Easy-call, easy-care, Easy-carve, Easy-chair, easy-clean, easy-climb, easy-come, easy-cook, easy-does-it, easy-drinking, Easy-e, easy-easy, easy-edit, easy-feeling, easy-fit, easy-fitting, easy-fix, easy-fixing, easy-flow, easy-go, Easy-going, easy-going chap, easy-handling, easy-ish, Easy-kerr, easy-knit, easy-learn, easy-listening, easy-living, easy-money, easy-moving, easy-natured, easy-on-the-ear, easy-on-the-eye, easy-paced, easy-payment, easy-peasies, easy-peasy, easy-reading, easy-riding, easy-sounding, easy-tee, easy-tempered, easy-term, easy-to-administer, easy-to-answer, easy-to-apply, easy-to-assemble, easy-to-beat, easy-to-build, easy-to-carry, easy-to-clean, easy-to-cook, easy-to-digest, easy-to-draw, easy-to-drive, easy-to-eat, easy-to-enter, easy-to-find, easy-to-fit, easy-to-fix, easy-to-fly, easy-to-follow, easy-to-grasp, easy-to-grip, easy-to-grow, easy-to-handle, easy-to-hold, easy-to-learn, easy-to-load, easy-to-maintain, easy-to-make, easy-to-manage, easy-to-open, easy-to-operate, Easy-to-pass-tory-gcse, easy-to-peel, easy-to-reach, easy-to-read, easy-to-remember, easy-to-run, easy-to-store, easy-to-strip, easy-to-tear-off, easy-to-understand, easy-to-use, easy-to-wear, easy-to-win, easy-trieve, easy-virtue, easy-wipe.

Ending with "easy": too-easy.

Containing "easy": as-easy-as.

Afrikaans

maklik (comfortable, facile). (various references)

Albanian

qetë (evenly, quietly, undisturbedly), pa telashe, pa nxitim, lehtë (airily, easily, facile, faintly, light, lightly, readily, slightly), jo i vështirë (facile, light), i thjeshtë (abecedarian, artless, austere, bare, chaste, childlike, common, elementary, enlisted, folksy, foolproof, Hick, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, inelaborate, informal, ingenuous, inornate, mere, modest, native, natural, neat, not mingled, onefold, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, private, pure, quotidian, rude, russet, rustic, simple, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, very), i shkujdesur (blind, carefree, careless, casual, cavalier, devil may care, downbeat, easygoing, fast, forgetful, happy go lucky, heedless, improvident, inadvertent, incautious, inobservant, lax, light hearted, lightsome, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, slaphappy, slipshod, thoughtless, traipse, trapes, unclean, unconcerned, unkempt, unladylike, unmindful, untidy), i rehatshëm (comfortable, comfy, cosy, cozy, cushy, homey, snug), i lirshëm (flowing, fluent, slack), i lehtë (airy, downhill, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless), i durueshëm (bearable, endurable, patient, tolerable, tol-lol), i arritshëm (accessible, achievable, approachable, attainable, available, easy of access, obtainable). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مريح (agreeable, calming, comfort, comfortable, convenient, cosy, easeful, easygoing, refreshing, relaxing, restful, smooth, snug, soothing), ‏هين (cheap, cushy, effortless, facile, handy, light, royal, soft), ‏سهل (ease, ease off, even, expedite, facilitate, favor, favour, flat, frail, get-at-able, plain, quite simple, simple, slick, smooth, soft), ‏سلس (be smooth, cursive, fluent, fluid, glib, liquid, voluble), ‏طبعي (problem), ‏رخي (loose, loosen, mollify, relax, relinquish, slack, unbend, unhand), ‏بهدوء (evenly, placidly, play cool, quietly, slow, softly). (various references)

Basque

erraz. (various references)

Bulgarian 

непринуден (affable, artless, childlike, familiar, free, go-as-you-please, informal, rustic, simple, spontaneous, unconstrained, unlabored, unlaboured, unpretending, unpretentious, unstarched, unstrained, unstudied, unstuffy), по-лека (steady), приятен (acceptable, agreeable, cheerful, clever, companionable, cozy, darling, engaging, enjoyable, good, gracious, grateful, groovy, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, likely, luscious, merry, musical, nice, nice-looking, not unwelcome, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, refreshing, rose colored, rose coloured, sapid, satisfying, savoury, soft, sweet, sympathetic, toothsome, welcome), прост (abc, artless, childlike, common, commonplace, elemental, elementary, funky, grave, homelike, homespun, humble, illiberal, low, native, onefold, open and shut, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, rugged, rustic, simple, sleazy, straight, straightforward, uncomplicated, unpretentious, vulgar), лек (airy, bland, cool, cure, cushy, expedite, facile, fairy, flimsy, gentle, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightsome, lightweight, medicine, mild, mobile, potty, quiet, remedy, skyey, slick, slight, snap, soft, subtle, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial), леко (cheap, gently, light, lightly, soft), лесен (effortless, facile, liveable, potty, ready, ready made, runaway, simple, smooth, snap, soft), плавен (flowing, fluent, fluid, graceful, light, liquid, tripping), замрял (languid), удобен (agreeable, appropriate, carriageable, comfortable, comfy, convenient, cozy, favorable, favourable, good, proper, ready made, suitable), несериозен (fly-by-night, futile, half-baked, light, pococurante, superficial), облекчен (comfortable), охолен (affluent, opulent, wanton, warm, wealthy), спокоен (arcadian, calm, clear, collected, contented, cool, dreamy, easeful, equable, equal, even tempered, even-minded, halcyon, immovable, impassive, imperturbable, leisurely, level, nerveless, peaceful, philosophical, piping, placid, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, self possessed, self-collected, settled, smooth, soft, staid, steady, steady-going, still, stirless, unalarmed, unbuttoned, unconcerned, undisturbed, uneventful, unflappable, unmolested, unruffled, untroubled), спокойно (calmly, evenly, gently, leisurely, quiet, quietly, smooth), свободен (at large, available, disengaged, disposable, easeful, exempt, facile, familiar, fetterless, floating, fluent, footloose, free, glib, go-as-you-please, immune, independent, intestate, leisure, loose, neglige, off, open, otiose, quit, spare, tripping, unbending, unbound, unbuttoned, uncommitted, unconstrained, unforced, unreserved, unrestricted, unstudied, untenanted, untrammelled, vacant, void, wide), лесно (cheap, cheaply, easily, facilely, readily, simply). (various references)

Catalan

fàcil (facile). (various references)

Chinese 

容易 (liable, likely). (various references)

Czech

snadný (effortless, facile, light, painless, unlabored, unlaboured), povlovný (gentle, gradual), postupný (gradual, piecemeal, progressive, successive), poklidný (placid), pohodlný (comfortable, comfy, commodious, cosy, cozy, cushy, snug), nenucený (casual, effortless, glib, informal, nonchalant, relaxed, spontaneous, throwaway, unceremonious, unconstrained, unstudied), lehký (effortless, light, lightish, small, thin), klidný (calm, collected, composed, cool, halcyon, impassive, imperturbable, laid back, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, silent, smooth, sober, still, temperate, tranquil, uneventful, unmoved, unperturbed), jednoduchý (elementary, homely, mere, open and shut, simple, single, singular, unsophisticated), bezstarostný (carefree, careless, cavalier, easygoing, free from care, gay, happy go lucky, jaunty, laid back, light hearted, light-headed, reckless, slaphappy, unconcerned). (various references)

Danish

nem (facile), let (bright, facile, light). (various references)

Dutch

vlot (facile, free, raft, smooth, unchecked), licht (bright, clear, facile, faint, insubstantial, light, lightly, shallow, superficial, weak, weakly). (various references)

Esperanto

facila (facile). (various references)

Faeroese

lættur (facile, light). (various references)

Farsi 

ملایم (Benign, Bland, Breezy, Clement, Downy, Equable, Gentle, Kindly, Lenient, Meek, Mild, Moderate, Sedate, Smooth, Soft, Suave), سهل (Eath), سلیس (Fluent, Glib, Liquid, Smooth, Versatile, Voluble), اسوده (Calm, Snug, Tranquil), اسان (Easygoing, Eath, Light, Straightforward), روان (Cursive, Fluent, Ghost, Glib, Handy, Liquid, Psyche, Smooth, Spirit, Versatile, Voluble), بی زحمت (Eath). (various references)

Finnish

helppo (cheap, facile, low). (various references)

French

facile. (various references)

Frisian

maklik (facile). (various references)

German

leicht (easily, effortless, effortlessly, facile, facilely, gentle, gossamerly, light, lighthearted, lightly, lightweight, loose, lower-level, mild, mildly, minor, nimbly, petty, readily, simple, slight, slightly, smooth, softly, sprightly, thinly, unsubstantial), bequem (comfortable, comfortably, convenient, conveniently, cushy, easily, handy, idle, modest, opportune, slack, soft), unschwer, ungezwungen (at ease, casual, casually, cavalierly, informal, informally, spontaneous, unceremonious, uncoerced, unforced, unforcedly), mühelos (breezing, easily, effortless, effortlessly, facile, unlabored). (various references)

Greek 

εύκολοσ (convenient, facile, ready, simple), εύκολος (facile, manageable), άνετοσ (comfortable, cosy, spacious), άνετος (at ease, comfortable, in comfort). (various references)

Hawaiian

lehtë (facile, light). (various references)

Hebrew 

קל (cushy, facile, light, simple, swift), נוח (affable, calm, comfortable, convenient, cushy, easygoing, fair, favourable, genial, good natured, mild, propitious, rest, snug, soft), נקל (easily). (various references)

Hungarian

könnyen (biddable, easily, effortlessly, evanescent, gullible, light, lightly, pliableness, pliancy, queasy, readily, skittish, to prick, to trip, tractable, with ease), könnyû (facile, light, slight). (various references)

Indonesian

enteng (light, lightly, mild), mudah (ease), gampang. (various references)

Irish

furasta, éasca. (various references)

Italian

facile (easier, easygoing, facile, fluent, inclined, likely, plain, prone, ready, simple, smooth, soft). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

易い , アンモニア水 (ammonia water, ammonium, aqueous ammonia, eagle, Easter, easy care, easy going, easy listening music, easy order, easy payment, EC, ether, etherboard, Ethernet, European Community, loose-fitting pants with an elastic or drawcord waist, routine fly ball, unlock, unlucky, unmoral), あだ名 (easily, in a big surprising way, light, nickname, openhearted, over there, quickly, readily, simple), 他愛ない (absurd, childish, foolish, guileless, silly, trifling), 他愛無い (absurd, childish, foolish, guileless, silly, trifling), 安直 (cheap, inexpensive, simple), 容易 (plain, simple), 容易い (light, simple), 何でもない (harmless, trifling), 何でも無い (harmless, trifling), 平易 (plain, simple), ない交ぜにする (gentle, gently-sloping, long thin brown "naoko" mushroom, nostalgic melody, to blend, to follow, to trace, very small amount which looks like nothing), ちょび髭 (a topknot, at a glance, bits and pieces, by accident, dot, drop by drop, flickering, fluttering, frizzily, in trickles, intermittently, point, short mustache, simple, small mustache, sparsely, to be dazzled, to flicker, to flit, to litter), 温温 (carefree, comfortably, cosily, snugly), 造作無い (no trouble), 易い　, 易しい (plain, simple), 易しい　 (plain, simple), 手軽 (cheap, informal, offhand, simple), 暖気 (carefree, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, warm weather, warmth), 事無し (nothing, nothing to be done, safe), 生易しい (simple), 訳ない (easily), 訳無い (easily), 軽やか (light, minor, non-serious), 軽易 (light, simple), 造作ない (no trouble), 温々 (carefree, comfortably, cosily, snugly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ことなし (nothing, nothing to be done, safe), てがる (cheap, informal, offhand, simple), へいい (military power, plain, shabby clothes, simple, worn out clothes), けいい (complications, details, honour, how it started, how things got this way, light, particulars, position, respect, sequence of events, simple, whole story), ようい (hip measurement, mysterious occurrence, plain, preparation, simple), やさしい (affectionate, amiable, gentle, graceful, kind, plain, simple, suave, tender), やすい (cheap, gossipy, inexpensive, peaceful, quiet, thoughtless), イージー , わけない (easily), ちょろい (simple), あっさりした (light, openhearted, simple), ぞうさない (no trouble), かるやか (light, minor, non-serious), かろやか (light, minor, non-serious), ぬくぬく (carefree, comfortably, cosily, snugly), のんき (carefree, careless, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, heedless, optimistic, reckless), なだらか (gentle, gently-sloping), なんでもない (harmless, trifling), なまやさしい (simple), たやすい (light, simple), たわいない (absurd, childish, foolish, guileless, silly, trifling), あんちょく (cheap, inexpensive, simple). (various references)

Korean 

쉬운. (various references)

Manx

soccoil (cosy, easy-going), sasdagh, dy aashagh (easily), bog (callow, callow of youth, flabby, limp, loose, loose of cough, moist, pulpy, slack, soft, soft-hearted, tender), aashagh (acquiescent, effortless, leisurely, rest, softly). (various references)

Norwegian

rolig (calm, quiet), lett (light), behagelig (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice, pleasant). (various references)

Occitan

aisit. (various references)

Papiamen

fásil (facile). (various references)

Pig Latin

easyay.(various references)

Polish

łatwy (facile). (various references)

Portuguese

fácil (as a piece of cake, effortless, facile, light, open-and-shut, painless, simple, smooth). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

fácil, fáceis. (various references)

Romanian

uşor (downhill, easily, facile, fluffy, gauzy, gentle, glib, gossamer, jamb, lax, light, light of foot, lightly, lightsome, rate, readily, ready, running, simple, slight, small, soft, superficial, swimmingly, thin, with a wet finger). (various references)

Russian 

удобный (carriageable, comfortable, comfy, commodious, convenient, cosy, expedite, habitable, handy, snug, usable), удобно (accommodatingly, cose), спокойный (calm, calmer, composed, cool-headed, cosh, douce, easeful, even tempered, even-minded, even-tempered, imperturbable, laid back, laid-back, level headed, placid, quiet, reposeful, secure, sedate, serene, settled, sober-blooded, still, tranquil, untroubled), нетрудный (light, toilless), неторопливый (leisured, unhurried), непринужденный (informal, relaxed, unaffected, unbuttoned, unconstrained, unstarched, unstrained, unstudied), лёгкий (facile), легко легкий, легкий (airy, cheap, cushy, delicate, easygoing, effortless, ethereal, facile, flimsy, gentle, gossamery, light, light weight, lightsome, lightweight, mild, potty, runaway, sketchy, toilless, unlabored, unlaboured), покойно (undisturbedly), излишне уступчивый. (various references)

Scottish

soirbh (courteous, facile, pliant, prosperous; safe, quiet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prost (coarse, common, commoner, folksy, homely, homespun, inurbane, low-bred, lowbrow, mere, rude, simple, trivial, underbred, vulgar), lako (airily, easily, facilely, light, lightly, trippingly), lak (cyclecar, facile, go easy, lac, lacker, lacquer, lakh, light, light weight, lightweight, soft, varnish), jednostavan (go easy, modest, plain, simple, uncomplicated). (various references)

Slovene

lahko (easily). (various references)

Spanish

fácil (cushy, effortless, facile, glib, light, loose, painless, ready, simple, well to do), facil (easily, lightly). (various references)

Swahili

rahisi (cheap, facile, inexpensive). (various references)

Swedish

lätt (easily, facile, floaty, fragile, gentle, gently, hands over fist, in a hurry, light, lightly, mild, readily, shallow, simple, slight, slightly, tripping), ledig (airy, casual, disengaged, facile, flowing, fluent, fluid, free, glib, leisured, leisurely, off duty, off-hour, open, out, Pat, spare, unoccupied, vacant, void). (various references)

Tagalog

madalî (facile, fast, quick, rapid, speedy, swift). (various references)

Thai

ไม่เข้มงวด (easygoing), ไม่มีพิธีรีตรอง, ง่าย (light, simple, simplistic). (various references)

Turkish

zevkli (decorous, delightful, enjoyable, fun, gracious, pleasurable, select, tasteful, tasty, zestful), zahmetsiz (cheap, effortless), uysal (accommodating, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, Clement, compliant, demiss, docile, ductile, easygoing, facile, flexible, flexile, gentle, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, lamblike, malleable, manageable, meek, milky, peaceful, pliant, soft, squeezable, submissive, supple, sweet-tempered, tame, toward, tractable, yielding), serbest (at large, at liberty, cavalier, disengaged, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, freehearted, freewheeling, go-as-you-please, in the clear, independent, latitudinarian, leisure, liberal, loose, open, permissive, quit, unattached, unbound, unchecked, unconfined, unconstrained, unencumbered, unengaged, unfettered, unhampered, unrestrained, unrestricted, unshackled, untrammelled), rahat (at ease, at rest, cavalier, comfort, comfortable, comfy, complacent, composure, cosy, cushioned, cushy, ease, facile, leisure, luxurious, peace, rest, restful, serene, snug, unconstrained, unconventional, undisturbed, unembarassed, untroubled), kolay (cushy, downhill, effortless, facile, flowing, open and shut, ready, simple, smooth, straightforward, uncomplicated, unlaboured), huzurlu (calm, peaceful, quiet, reposeful, restful, serene, tranquil), doğal (artless, connatural, free, inartificial, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingenuous, inherent, innate, native, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied), dertsiz (carefree, untroubled), basit (basic, countrified, crude, elemental, elementary, everyday, facile, foolproof, frugal, frugally, homely, humble, jejune, potty, primitive, simple, simplex, simplificative, simplistic, small, straightforward, undemanding, vulgar). (various references)

Turkmen 

erkana (free, unrestricted), яцnekeя (plain, simple), яeсilleюdirmek (simplify), aсsat. (various references)

Ukrainian

спокійно (at ease, calmly, evenly, leisurely, peacefully, quietly, serenely, smooth, with abandon), вільно (at ease, broad, easily, fluently, free, freely, loose, loosely, naturally), неквапливо (deliberately, easily, leisurely, unhurriedly), неквапливий (canny, deliberate, dilatory, leisured, plodding, slow, unhurried), невимушений (cavalier, chatty, informal, laidback, natural, relaxed, there, unbuttoned, unrestrained, unstudied), необтяжливий (unpainful), зручно, зручний (accessible, accommodative, carriageable, comfortable, comfy, convenient, cosy, couth, easeful, likely, practical), легко (airily, aptly, currently, easily, light, nimbly, readily, volubly, with ease), легкий (aerial, airy, cushy, effortless, facile, gossamer, light, potty), приємний (acceptable, agreeable, amiable, balmy, beautiful, boon, canny, clean-cut, complimentary, couth, cozy, cushy, delectable, dulcet, enjoyable, glad, good, goodly, graceful, grateful, jocund, kindly, lepid, nice, nutty, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, redolent, satisfactory, tasty, welcome, yummy), поступливий (accommodating, appeasable, compliant, concessive, pliable, pliant, soft, yielding), поволі (slow), поблажливий (forgiving, gracious, indulgent, large-hearted, lenient, mild, permissive). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ung dung dễ (easily), thoải mái (airily, airy, comfortable, easily, finger, off-hand, off-handed), thanh thản (easeful, easily, quietly), sự nghỉ ngơi một lát, phong lưu (comfortably, well-off), không lo lắng; thanh thoát (easily), dễ dàng dễ dãi, ế ẩm sự sung túc. (various references)

Welsh

hawdd (facile). (various references)

facilis. (various references)

facile. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "easy": easygoing, easygoingness, easygoingnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "easy": creasy, greasy, nongreasy, overeasy, queasy, speakeasy, uneasy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Easy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asy, Cesay, Deasy, eaasy, Eacc, eacy, ealsy, eamy, eaos, eary, eas, Easey, eash, easie, eask, easly, easo, easry, eassy, e'asy, easyb, eaty, eavy, eay, eaye, eaz, eazy, Ecas, Edas, Eeky, eeny, eesh, egay, ehas, eis, eisi, Eisl, Ejaz, Ejazi, Ejs, Elsy, enas, Eosg, eosi, eoy, epsy, ersey, Ersly, Ersoy, esa, Esaa, Esac, Esag, esap, esau, esax, esay, esi, Esj, Essi, Essie, Essy, esy, Etsi, eus, Eusi, evay, ewsm, exs, ezs, heasy, kasy, measy, Metasyn, Neafsey, oasie, peasy, peazy, Qasi, resay, saey, teasy, vasy, Veasey, xeasy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ayes, eyas, yeas.

-1 letter: aye, ays, sae, say, sea, yea, yes.

-2 letters: ae, as, ay, es, ya, ye.

+1 letter: abyes, essay, eyras, lyase, resay, sayer, seamy, yeans, years, yeast.

+2 letters: abbeys, alleys, baryes, basely, belays, casefy, causey, cayuse, creasy, decays, delays, derays, easily, embays, essays, estray, eyases, gayest, greasy, gyrase, hayers, hyenas, kayles, kayoes, layers, lyases, lysate, mameys, mateys, maybes, mayest, measly, myases, payees, payers, queasy, relays, repays, resays, safely, safety, sagely, sanely, sawney, sawyer, sayers, sayest, scarey, seaway, senary, shaley, slatey, slavey, slayed, slayer, sleazy, smeary, snakey, sneaky, spacey, spayed, stagey, stayed, stayer, steady, steamy, swayed, swayer, sweaty, sylvae, uneasy, waveys, yagers, yamens, yarest, yearns, yeasts, yeasty, yentas, yerbas, zymase.