easy
AdjektivAdverbSubstantivVerbInterjektionTop 1 000 in Filmdialogen
- Schottland//ˈi.ze//
- //ˈiːzi//
- /[ˈɪi̯zɪi̯]/
Comfortable; at ease.
Adjektiv
- 1
Comfortable; at ease.
Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night.
“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
- 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.
Now the easiest sell in traveldom is made even easier.
I realized this all too well when as a seminarian I got stuck with the job of recruiting the washees for a Maundy Thursday service. It's much easier to be the one down on the floor with the basin[…]
- 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
the easy vigour of a line
- 5
umgangssprachlichConsenting 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.
He gain'd their easy hearts.
He is[…] too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
- 7
veraltendNot straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
The market is easy.
Herkunft
From Middle English esy, eesy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Anglo-Norman eisé 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 (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, auð-, Icelandic auð (adverb), auð-, all meaning "easy." More at ease, eath.
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.
Substantiv
- 1
umgangssprachlichSomething that is easy.
Virtually all of the "easies" are the first watermark and the "toughs" are the second.
Run past the nasties, kill the easies.
Make the easies a bit tougher by shaping slightly away from the A position.
Verb
- 1
Synonym of easy-oar.
Interjektion
- 1
umgangssprachlichRequesting deintensification or a halt.
Formen
- Plural
- easies
- Komparativ
- easier, more easy
- Superlativ
- easiest, most easy
- Präteritum
- easied
- Partizip II
- easied
- Partizip I
- easying
- 3. Person Singular
- easies