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Easy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. s as z. [ See Ease .] Quiet; being at rest; free from pain, disturbance or annoyance. The patient has slept well and is easy

2. Free from anxiety, care, solicitude or peevishness; quiet; tranquil; as an easy mind.

3. Giving no pain or disturbance; as an easy posture; an easy carriage.

4. Not difficult; that gives or requires no great labor or exertion; that presents no great obstacles; as an easy task. It is often more easy to resolve, than to execute.

5. Knowledge is easy to him that understandeth. Proverbs 14:6 .

6. Not causing labor or difficulty. An easy ascent or slope, is a slope rising with a small angle.

7. Smooth; not uneven; not rough or very hilly; that may be traveled with ease; as an easy road.

8. Gentle; moderate; not pressing; as a ship under easy sail.

9. Yielding with little or no resistance; complying; credulous.

10. With such deceits he gained their easy hearts.

11. Ready; not unwilling; as easy to forgive.

12. Contented; satisfied. Allow hired men wages that will make them easy

13. Giving ease; freeing from labor, care or the fatigue of business; furnishing abundance without toil; affluent; as easy circumstances; an easy fortune.

14. Not constrained; not stiff or formal; as easy manners; an easy address; easy movements in dancing.

15. Smooth; flowing; not harsh; as an easy style.

16. Not jolting; as, the horse has an easy gait.

17. Not heavy or burdensome.

18. My yoke is easy and my burden light. Matthew 11:30 .

Easy [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint

2. Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy.

3. Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind.

4. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. Moderate; sparing; frugal.

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

Easy-chair [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An armchair for ease or repose.

Easy-going [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive.

Slowness Roget’s Thesaurus §275

N. slowness, languor, drawl, creeping, lentor, retardation, slackening, delay, claudication|, jog trot, dog trot, mincing steps, slow march, slow time, slow goer, slow coach, slow back, lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail, poke*, dawdle

V. move slowly, creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter, plod, trudge, stump along, lumber, trail, drag, dawdle, grovel, worm one's way, steal along, job on, rub on, bundle on, toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate|, shamble, flag, falter, trotter, stagger, mince, step short, march in slow time, march in funeral procession, take one's time, hang fire, retard, relax, slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb, reef, strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail, put on the drag, apply the brake, clip the wings, reduce the speed, slacken speed, slacken one's pace, lose ground

Adj. slow, slack, tardy, dilatory, gentle, easy, leisurely, deliberate, gradual, insensible, imperceptible, glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade|, snail-like, creeping, reptatorial

Adv. slowly, leisurely, piano, adagio, largo, larghetto, at half speed, under easy sail, at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace, in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings, haud passibus aequis, gradually, gradatim, by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little, step by step, one step at a time, inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little, seriatim, consecutively

Phr. dum roma deliberat saguntum perit, at a glacial pace, 3, motion conjoined with force

Elegance Roget’s Thesaurus §578

N. elegance, purity, grace, ease, gracefulness, # readiness, concinnity, euphony, numerosity, atticism, classicalism, classicism, well rounded periods, well turned periods, flowing periods, the right word in the right place, antithesis, *purist

V. point an antithesis, round a period

Adj. elegant, polished, classical, attic, correct, ciceronian, artistic, chaste, pure, saxon, academical, graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping, unaffected, natural, unlabored, mellifluous, euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic, numerose|, rhythmical, felicitous, happy, neat, well put, neatly put, well expressed, neatly expressed

Facility Roget’s Thesaurus §705

N. facility, ease, easiness, capability, feasibility, flexibility, pliancy, smoothness, plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing, mere child's play, holiday task, cinch, smooth water, fair wind, smooth royal road, clear coast, clear stage, tabula rasa, full play, disencumbrance, disentanglement, deoppilation|, permission, simplicity, lack of complication

V. be easy, go on smoothly, run smoothly, have full play, go on all fours, run on all fours, obey the helm, work well, flow with the stream, swim with the stream, drift with the stream, go with the stream, flow with the tide, drift with the tide, see one's way, have all one's own way, have the game in one's own hands, walk over the course, win at a canter, make light of, make nothing of, make no bones of, be at home in, make it look easy, do it with one's eyes closed, do it in one's sleep, render easy, facilitate, smooth, ease, popularize, lighten, lighten the labor, free, clear, disencumber, disembarrass, disentangle, disengage, deobstruct, unclog, extricate, unravel, untie the knot, cut the knot, disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free from, deoppilate|, humor, lubricate, relieve, leave a hole to creep out of, leave a loophole, leave the matter open, give the reins to, give full play, give full swing, make way for, open the door to, open the way, prepare the ground, smooth the ground, clear the ground, open the way, open the path, open the road, pave the way, bridge over, permit

Adj. easy, facile, feasible, easily managed, easily accomplished, within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to, manageable, wieldy, towardly, tractable, submissive, yielding, ductile, suant, pliant, glib, slippery, smooth, on friction wheels, on velvet, unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered, disembarrassed, exonerated, unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled, unrestrained, at ease, light, at home with, quite at home, in one's element, in smooth water, skillful, accustomed

Adv. easily, readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms, single-handed

Phr. touch and go, 2, active antagonism

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11 KJV and 4 BSB verses contain “Easy”

Deuteronomy 1:41

Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.

“We have sinned against the LORD,” you replied. “We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God has commanded us.” Then each of you put on his weapons of war, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.

2 Kings 20:10

And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

“It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”

Proverbs 14:6

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.

Matthew 11:30

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’

1 Corinthians 14:9

So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.

2 Esdras 8:14

If therefore thou shalt destroy him which with so great labour was fashioned, it is an easy thing to be ordained by thy commandment, that the thing which was made might be preserved.

Judith 4:7

Charging them to keep the passages of the hill country: for by them there was an entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop them that would come up, because the passage was straight, for two men at the most.

Judith 7:10

For this people of the children of Israel do not trust in their spears, but in the height of the mountains wherein they dwell, because it is not easy to come up to the tops of their mountains.

Sirach 11:21

Marvel not at the works of sinners; but trust in the Lord, and abide in thy labour: for it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord on the sudden to make a poor man rich.

Sirach 11:26

For it is an easy thing unto the Lord in the day of death to reward a man according to his ways.

Baruch 6:61

In like manner the lightning when it breaketh forth is easy to be seen; and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country.

2 Maccabees 2:26

Therefore to us, that have taken upon us this painful labour of abridging, it was not easy, but a matter of sweat and watching;