easy
adjective/ˈiːzi/
(comparative easier, superlative easiest)
Слово англійською: easy
Переклад easy українською: зручний, легкий, невимушений
Детальний опис
- not difficult; done or obtained without a lot of effort or problems
- an easy way to make bread
- Reaching the summit is no easy task.
- an easy win/victory
- It's much easier if you speak the language.
- easy to do something It's easy to forget how we lived before the internet.
- The tool is quick and easy to use.
- Their house isn't the easiest place to get to.
- There are no easy answers in cases like this.
- Several schools are within easy reach (= not far away).
- easy for somebody (to do something) It's easy for you to criticize.
- He didn't make it easy for me to leave.
- It can't be easy for her, on her own with the children.
- comfortable, relaxed and not worried
- He has not had an easy life.
- I don't feel easy about letting the kids go out alone.
- Things are getting easier for us.
- [only before noun] open to attack; not able to defend yourself
- She's an easy target for their criticisms.
- The baby fish are easy prey for birds.
- [only before noun] pleasant and friendly synonym easy-going
- She had an easy manner.
- His easy charm soon won her over.
- [not usually before noun] (informal, offensive) an offensive way to describe somebody, most often a woman, who you disapprove of because you think they are willing to have sex with many different people see also easily
Word OriginMiddle English (also in the sense ‘comfortable, tranquil’): from Old French aisie, past participle of aisier ‘put at ease, facilitate’, from the phrase a aise ‘at ease’.
Idioms
as easy as anything/as pie/as ABC/as falling off a log
- (informal) very easy or very easily
- The whole procedure is as easy as ABC.
- Fooling him was as easy as falling off a log.
an easy/a soft touch
- (informal) a person that you can easily persuade to do something, especially to give you money
- Unfortunately, my father is no easy touch.
easy meat
- a person who seems easy to defeat or cheat
- Rogue traders saw elderly people as easy meat for overcharging.
easy money
- (informal) money that you get without having to work very hard for it
easy on the ear/eye
- (informal) pleasant to listen to or look at
- The room was painted in soft pastels that were easy on the eye.
an/a/the easy/soft option
- (often disapproving) a choice that is thought to be easier because it involves less effort, difficulty, etc.
- They are anxious that the new course should not be seen as an easy option.
- He decided to take the easy option and give them what they wanted.
free and easy
- informal; relaxed
- Life was never going to be so free and easy again.
have an easy ride | give somebody an easy ride
- (informal) to not experience difficulties when you are doing something; to make things easy for somebody
- He was not given an altogether easy ride at the interview.
have an easy time (of it)
- to have no difficulties or problems
- He’s had an easy time of it since he married Lucy.
I’m easy
- (informal) used to say that you do not have a strong opinion when somebody has offered you a choice
- ‘Do you want to watch this or the news?’ ‘Oh, I'm easy. It's up to you.’
of easy virtue
- (old-fashioned, disapproving) willing to have sex with anyone
- a woman of easy virtue
on easy street
- (old-fashioned, informal) enjoying a comfortable way of life with plenty of money
take the easy way out
- to end a difficult situation by choosing the simplest solution even if it is not the best one
- He took the easy way out and didn’t go to the meeting.
- She took the easy way out and paid someone to write the article for her.
within (easy) reach (of something)
- close to something
- The house is within easy reach of schools and sports facilities.
- Verona and Padua are both within easy reach for day trips.
- a holiday town within reach of Marseilles