Adjective

(en adjective)

Exact, accurate.

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(sciences) Of experimental results, consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other. This does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value.

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Adjective

(er)

Comfortable; at ease.

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, 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)

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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 .