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easy
What does easy mean?
easy (adjective): requiring little skill or effort.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use easy in a sentence?
- It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- The teacher gave an easy test to her students. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce easy?
/ˈizi/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does easy come from?
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”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are antonyms of easy?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “easy”?
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What does “easy” mean?
showing reason or sound judgment
Not quite: that's what sensible means.
requiring little skill or effort
Right! That's what “easy” means.
performed or happening in secret
Not quite: that's what undercover means.
likely or most likely to be true
Not quite: that's what probable means.
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