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Easy vs Hello - What's the difference?

easy | hello |

As nouns the difference between easy and hello

is that easy is something that is easy while hello is "!" or an equivalent greeting.

As verbs the difference between easy and hello

is that easy is to easy-oar (stop rowing) while hello is to greet with "hello".

As an adjective easy

is comfortable; at ease.

As an adverb easy

is in a relaxed or casual manner.

As an interjection hello is

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easy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Comfortable; at ease.
  • * , chapter=16
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
  • Requiring little skill or effort.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
  • Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
    • Rich people live in easy circumstances.
    an easy chair
  • Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
    • easy''' manners; an '''easy style
  • * Alexander Pope
    • the easy vigour of a line
  • (informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
  • Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
  • * Dryden
    • He gained their easy hearts.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
  • Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
    • 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 also

    Antonyms

    * uneasy, anxious * (requiring little skill or effort) difficult, hard, uneasy, uneath, challenging

    Derived 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 * uneasiness

    Related terms

    * ease

    Adverb

    (er)
  • In a relaxed or casual manner
  • In a manner without strictness or harshness.
  • Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
  • Not difficult, not hard. (rfex)

    • Noun

    (easies)
  • Something that is easy

    • Verb

  • to easy-oar (stop rowing)

    • Anagrams

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    hello

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hallo * hilloa (obsolete) * hullo (UK)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!'” at the top of my lungs.
  • (colloquial)

    • Usage notes

    * The greeting hello is among the most generic and neutral in use. It may be heard in nearly all social situations and in nearly all walks of life, and is unlikely to cause offense.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "hello")

    Synonyms

    * (greeting) ** g'day, hey, hi, ** hallo, hi, hiya, ey up ** hallo, hey, hi, howdy ** how's it going, hey, hi ** howzit ** (slang) wassup, what's up, yo, sup * See also

    Antonyms

    * (greeting) bye, goodbye

    Derived terms

    *

    See also

    * * (wikipedia "hello")

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • "!" or an equivalent greeting.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 29, author=Stephanie Rosenbloom, title=A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In many new buildings, though, neighbors are venturing beyond tight-lipped hellos at the mailbox.}}

    Synonyms

    * greeting

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To greet with "hello".
  • * 2013 , Ivan Doig, English Creek (page 139)
    • I had to traipse around somewhat, helloing' people and being ' helloed , before I spotted my mother and my father, sharing shade and a spread blanket with Pete and Marie Reese and Toussaint Rennie near the back of the park.
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