easyとは

語源

From Middle English eesy, esy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease +‎ -y, and partly from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), past participle of aisier (“to put at ease”), from aise (“empty space, elbow room, opportunity”), of uncertain origin. See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“not difficult, easy”), from 古期英語 ēaþe, īeþe (“easy, smooth, not difficult”), from Proto-Germanic *auþaz, *auþijaz (“easy, pleasing”), from *auþiz (“vacant, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *aut- (“empty, lonely”). Compare also Old Saxon ōþi (“easy, vacant, empty”), Old High German ōdi (“easy, effortless, vacant, empty”), Old Norse auðr (“easy, vacant, empty”). More at ease, eath.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːzi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈizi/
• 韻: -iːzi

形容詞

easy (comparative easier または more easy, superlative easiest または most easy)

1. (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 16, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     “[…] 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.”

   Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night.

2. Requiring little skill or effort.

   It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up.

   • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     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.

   The teacher gave an easy test to her students.

3. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.

   Rich people live in easy circumstances.

   an easy chair

4. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.

   easy manners; an easy style

   • Alexander Pope

     the easy vigour of a line

5. (informal, derogatory, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.

   He has a reputation for being easy; they say he slept with half the senior class.

6. 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.

7. (finance, dated) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.

   The market is easy.

同意語

• (comfortable): relaxed, relaxing
• (not difficult): light, eath
• (consenting readily to sex): fast
• (requiring little skill または effort): soft, trivial
• See also Thesaurus:easy

反意語

• (comfortable, at ease): uneasy, anxious
• (requiring little skill または effort): difficult, hard, uneasy, uneath, challenging

派生語

関連する語

• ease

副詞

easy (comparative easier, superlative easiest)

1. In a relaxed or casual manner.

   After his illness, John decided to take it easy.

2. In a manner without strictness or harshness.

   Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm.

3. Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.

   This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy.

4. Not difficult, not hard. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

派生語

• breathe easy

名詞

easy (複数形 easies)

1. Something that is easy

動詞

easy (三人称単数 現在形 easies, 現在分詞 easying, 過去形および過去分詞形 easied)

1. (rowing) Synonym of easy-oar

アナグラム

• Ayes, Saye, Seay, ayes, eyas, saye, yeas