Adjective

(er)

Comfortable; at ease.

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Requiring little skill or effort.

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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 .

Adjective

(er)

Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.

He's a quick runner.

Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

That was a quick meal.

Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.

Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

My father is old but he still has a quick wit.

Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.

* Latimer

The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.

(archaic) Alive, living.

* Bible, 2 Timothy iv. 1

the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead

* Herbert

Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.

* 1874 , , X

The inmost oratory of my soul,

Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead,

Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.

(archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.

* Shakespeare

she's quick ; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours

Of water: flowing.

Burning, flammable, fiery.

Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.

* Shakespeare

The air is quick there, / And it pierces and sharpens the stomach.

(mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren