easy

adjective
ea·sy
/ˈiːzi/

Requiring little skill or effort.

Example

“It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up.”

Other meanings

Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
“Rich people live in easy circumstances, that is, the easy life.”
Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
“easy manners; an easy style”

Example sentences

“No one said self-control was easy.”
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“The toilet seat was easy to install.”
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“Trust is hard to earn, easy to lose.”
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Word history

From Old English "īeþe".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “easy” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.