英和和英

語源

From 中期英語 esy, eesy, partly from 中期英語 ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease +‎ -y, and partly from Anglo-Norman eisé 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 中期英語 ethe, eathe (“easy”), from 古期英語 īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, auð-, Icelandic auð (adverb), auð-, all meaning "easy." More at ease, eath.

発音

• (happy-tensing) IPA: /ˈiːzi/, [ˈɪi̯zɪi̯]
• (without happy-tensing)
  • (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /ˈi.ze/, /ˈiː.ze/
• 韻: -iːzi
• ハイフネーション: ea‧sy

形容詞

easy (comparative easier or more easy, superlative easiest or most easy)

1. (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.

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

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     “ […] 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.”

2. Requiring little skill or effort.

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

   The teacher gave an easy test to her students.

   • 1963, American Society of Travel Agents, ASTA Travel News, volume 32, page 55:

     Now the easiest sell in traveldom is made even easier.

   • 1995, Margaret Guenther, Toward Holy Ground, page 43:

     I realized this all too well when as a seminarian I got stuck with the job of recruiting the washees for a Maundy Thursday service. It's much easier to be the one down on the floor with the basin […]

   • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 21 September 2020:

     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.

   • 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better‎, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:

     You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

   • 2022 September 10, Matt McFarland, “Why your car’s speedometer goes up to 160 mph (even when your car can’t)”, in CNN Business‎:

     Toyota spokesman Paul Hogard said the automaker wants speedometers to be easy to read, so there’s value in placing the typical operating speed of American cars, 45 mph to 70 mph, he said, at the top of the speedometer, which is the easiest place on the speedometer for the driver to read.

   • 2025 May 27, John Fritze, Angélica Franganillo Díaz and Devan Cole, “Trump asks Supreme Court to make it easier to deport migrants to South Sudan and other third-party countries”, in CNN‎:

     President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to make it easier for his administration to deport people to South Sudan and other countries that are not their homeland, the latest in a series of controversial immigration policies the administration has put before the conservative-majority high court.

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

   Rich people live in easy circumstances, that is, the easy life.

   an easy chair

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

   easy manners; an easy style

   • 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:

     the easy vigour of a line

5. (informal, derogatory, usually of a woman or girl) Consenting readily to sex.

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

6. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     He gain'd their easy hearts.

   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     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 or effort): soft, trivial, facile
• See also Thesaurus:easy

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “comfortable, at ease”): uneasy, anxious
• (antonym(s) of “requiring little skill or effort”): difficult, hard, uneasy, uneath, challenging

派生語

関連する語

• ease

派生した語

• → Faroese: isi
• → Finnish: iisi

副詞

easy (comparative easier, superlative easiest)

1. In a relaxed or casual manner.

   After his illness, John decided to take it easy.

   Everything comes easy to her.

   • 1786, John Jeffries, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, A narrative of the two aerial Voyages of Dr. J. with Mons. Blanchard: with meteorological observations and remarks.‎, page 45:

     We immediately threw out all the little things we had with us, ſuch as biſcuits, apples, &c. and after that one of our oars or wings; but ſtill deſcending, we caſt away the other wing, and then the governail ; having likewiſe had the precaution, for fear of accidents, while the Balloon was filling, partly to looſen and make it go eaſy, I now ſucceeded in attempting to reach without the Car, and unſcrewing the moulinet, with all its apparatus; I likewiſe caſt that into the ſea.

2. In a manner without strictness or harshness; gently; softly.

   Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm.

3. Handily; at the very least.

   This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy.

派生語

• breathe easy
• sleep easy

名詞

easy (plural easies)

1. (Should we delete this sense?) (rare, informal) Something that is easy.
   • 1995 September 19, Greg Ioannou, “watermarks and 11d plum”, in rec.collecting.stamps‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 April 2026:

     Virtually all of the "easies" are the first watermark and the "toughs" are the second.

   • 2001 February 24, Nib / Shu, “nib reaches a milestone!!!”, in microsoft.public.games.zone.asherons_call‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 April 2026:

     Run past the nasties, kill the easies.

   • 2003 September 29, Austin K. Williams, “8 straight hours......”, in alt.sport.pool‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 April 2026:

     Make the easies a bit tougher by shaping slightly away from the A position.

動詞

easy (third-person singular simple present easies, present participle easying, simple past and past participle easied)

1. (rowing) Synonym of easy-oar.

間投詞

easy

1. (informal) Requesting deintensification or a halt.

アナグラム

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

副詞

easy

1. alternative form of esy