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{ "term": "easy", "partOfSpeech": "adjective", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "a1", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "not difficult; done or obtained without a lot of effort or problems", "sensetop": "easy to do somethingeasy for somebody (to do something)", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "an **easy way** to make bread" }, { "text": "Reaching the summit is **no easy task**." }, { "text": "an **easy win/victory**" }, { "text": "It's **much easier** if you speak the language." }, { "text": "It's **easy to forget** how we lived before the internet.", "contextForm": "easy to do something" }, { "text": "The tool is **quick and easy** to use." }, { "text": "Their house isn't the easiest place to get to." }, { "text": "There are **no easy answers** in cases like this." }, { "text": "Several schools are **within easy reach** *(= not far away)*." }, { "text": "It's easy for you to criticize.", "contextForm": "easy for somebody (to do something)" }, { "text": "He didn't **make it easy** for me to leave." }, { "text": "It can't be easy for her, on her own with the children." }, { "text": "Doing all that while injured isn't exactly easy." }, { "text": "The homepage provides easy access to commonly used links." }, { "text": "The easiest solution would be to create a new storage area." }, { "text": "The plant is relatively easy to identify." }, { "text": "We all know the system needs fixing, but it's not that easy." }, { "text": "I found the book easy to read." }, { "text": "She found the exam quite easy." }, { "text": "It is easy enough to see how it happened." }, { "text": "It is the easiest thing in the world to blame your parents." }, { "text": "vegetables that are easy to grow" }, { "text": "It looks deceptively easy to hit the ball into the hole." }, { "text": "It was all too easy to forget why we had been sent there." }, { "text": "Playing tennis is not as easy as it looks." }, { "text": "The written test was ridiculously easy." }, { "text": "These changes should make your job easier." }, { "text": "Writing is not easy for her." }, { "text": "a book designed for quick and easy reference" }, { "text": "There are no easy answers to a problem like this." }, { "text": "This encyclopedia is designed for quick and easy reference." }, { "text": "It's easy for you to tell me to keep calm, but you're not in my position." }, { "text": "It would be the easiest thing in the world to fall in love with him." } ], "topics": ["Working life"], "collocations": { "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"], "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"], "preposition": ["for"], "phrases": ["all too easy", "as easy as 1, 2, 3", "as easy as ABC"] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "comfortable, relaxed and not worried", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "He has not had an easy life." }, { "text": "I don't feel easy about letting the kids go out alone." }, { "text": "Things are getting easier for us." }, { "text": "He was promised a nice easy retirement." }, { "text": "I've had a very easy day at work." }, { "text": "I'll agree to anything for an easy life." }, { "text": "She's a sociable kid who seems equally easy with children and adults." }, { "text": "a sophisticated audience that feels easy with ambiguity" }, { "text": "He's perfectly easy about his lack of ambition." }, { "text": "I felt a bit easier after that." }, { "text": "Racism is never a comfortable or easy topic to raise in multicultural classrooms." } ] }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "open to attack; not able to defend yourself", "examples": [ { "text": "She's an easy target for their criticisms." }, { "text": "The baby fish are easy prey for birds." } ] }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "pleasant and friendly", "cefr": "c1", "examples": [ { "text": "She had an easy manner." }, { "text": "His easy charm soon won her over." } ], "synonyms": "easy-going", "topics": ["Personal qualities"] }, { "senseNumber": 5, "definition": "an offensive way to describe somebody, most often a woman, who you disapprove of because you think they are willing to have sex with many different people", "labels": "(informal, offensive)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "very easy or very easily", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "The whole procedure is as easy as ABC." }, { "text": "Fooling him was as easy as falling off a log." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "a person that you can easily persuade to do something, especially to give you money", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "Unfortunately, my father is no easy touch." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "a person who seems easy to defeat or cheat", "examples": [ { "text": "Rogue traders saw elderly people as easy meat for overcharging." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "money that you get without having to work very hard for it", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "pleasant to listen to or look at", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "The room was painted in soft pastels that were easy on the eye." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "a choice that is thought to be easier because it involves less effort, difficulty, etc.", "labels": "(often disapproving)", "examples": [ { "text": "They are anxious that the new course should not be seen as an easy option." }, { "text": "He decided to **take the easy option** and give them what they wanted." } ], "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "informal; relaxed", "examples": [ { "text": "Life was never going to be so free and easy again." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to not experience difficulties when you are doing something; to make things easy for somebody", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "He was not given an altogether easy ride at the interview." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to have no difficulties or problems", "examples": [ { "text": "He’s had an easy time of it since he married Lucy." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "used to say that you do not have a strong opinion when somebody has offered you a choice", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "‘Do you want to watch this or the news?’ ‘Oh, I'm easy. It's up to you.’" } ], "topics": ["Preferences and decisions", "Opinion and argument"] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "willing to have sex with anyone", "labels": "(old-fashioned, disapproving)", "examples": [ { "text": "a woman of easy virtue" } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "enjoying a comfortable way of life with plenty of money", "labels": "(old-fashioned, informal)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to end a difficult situation by choosing the simplest solution even if it is not the best one", "examples": [ { "text": "He took the easy way out and didn’t go to the meeting." }, { "text": "She took the easy way out and paid someone to write the article for her." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "close to something", "examples": [ { "text": "The house is within easy reach of schools and sports facilities." }, { "text": "Verona and Padua are both within easy reach for day trips." }, { "text": "a holiday town within reach of Marseilles" } ] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/ˈiːzi/", "audio": "ea/easy/easy__gb_2.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/ˈiːzi/", "audio": "ea/easy/easy__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "Middle English (also in the sense ‘comfortable, tranquil’): from Old French aisie, past participle of aisier ‘put at ease, facilitate’, from the phrase a aise ‘at ease’." }