Easiest vs Easest - What's the difference?
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(easy)
Comfortable; at ease.
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Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
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(informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
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Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
In a relaxed or casual manner
In a manner without strictness or harshness.
Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
Not difficult, not hard. (rfex)
Something that is easy
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(archaic) (ease)
The state of being comfortable or free from stress.
Freedom from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
Freedom from effort, difficulty or hardship.
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Dexterity or facility.
Affluence and freedom from financial problems.
Relaxation, rest and leisure.
(clothing) Additional space to allow movement within a garment.
To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
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To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
To give respite to (someone).
To loosen or slacken the tension on (something).
To reduce the difficulty of (something).
To move (something) slowly and carefully.
To lessen in severity.
To proceed with little effort.
As an adjective easiest
is superlative of easy.As a verb easest is
archaic second-person singular of ease.easiest
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Adjective
(head)easy
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Adjective
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- Rich people live in easy circumstances.
- an easy chair
- easy''' manners; an '''easy style
- the easy vigour of a line
- He gained their easy hearts.
- He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
- The market is easy .
Synonyms
* (comfortable) relaxed, relaxing * (not difficult) light, eath * (consenting readily to sex) fast * (requiring little skill or effort) soft, trivial * See alsoAntonyms
* uneasy, anxious * (requiring little skill or effort) difficult, hard, uneasy, uneath, challengingDerived terms
* easiness * easily * easiness * easy as pie * easy chair * easy on the eyes * easy peasy * free and easy * have it easy * I'm easy * take it easy * uneasily * uneasinessAdverb
(er)Noun
(easies)Verb
Anagrams
* * * * 1000 English basic wordseasest
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Verb
(head)ease
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Noun
(-)- She enjoyed the ease of living in a house where the servants did all the work.
- ''His mind was at ease when he received his pension.
- He passed all the exams with ease .
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- He played the organ with ease .
- After winning the jackpot, she lived a life of luxurious ease .
- We took our ease on the patio.
- to add ease to a waist measurement
Quotations
* (English Citations of "ease")Synonyms
* (state of being comfortable or free from stress) comfort, peace * peace of mind * (dexterity or facility) dexterity, facility, skill * free time, leisure, relaxation, restDerived terms
* chapel of ease * at ease * ease of useReferences
Verb
(eas)- He eased his conscience by confessing.
- Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche.
- ''He loosened his shoe to ease the pain.
- The provision of extra staff eased their workload.
- We eased the rope, then lowered the sail.
- We had to ease the entry requirements.
- He eased the cork from the bottle.
- The pain eased overnight.
- The car eased onto the motorway.