Easy vs Willing - What's the difference?
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Comfortable; at ease.
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, title= Requiring little skill or effort.
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, title= Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
* Alexander Pope
(informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
* Dryden
* Sir Walter Scott
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
to easy-oar (stop rowing)
Ready to do something that is not (can't be expected as) a matter of course.
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, passage=In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.}}
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
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As adjectives the difference between easy and willing
is that easy is comfortable; at ease while willing is ready to do something that is not (can't be expected as) a matter of course.As nouns the difference between easy and willing
is that easy is something that is easy while willing is the execution of a will.As verbs the difference between easy and willing
is that easy is to easy-oar (stop rowing while willing is present participle of lang=en.As an adverb easy
is in a relaxed or casual manner.easy
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Adjective
(er)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.”}}
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.}}
- 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
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Adjective
(en adjective)Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
