easy

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

easy UK US [ˈiː.zi] adjective [ easier easiest ]
 
NOT DIFFICULT

1. <E > not difficult; needing little effort
• an easy exam
• Would a ten o'clock appointment be easier for you?
• + to infinitive It's easy to see why he's so popular.
• She's very easy to talk to.
• The easiest thing to do would be for us to take the train home.
• It isn't easy being a parent.
• Getting into the film business is no easy matter.
• I don't trust that easy (= relaxed) charm of his.
• slang My car can do 250kph, easy.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Easiness and simplicity
 
Common errors:
Warning: do not confuse the adjective easy with the adverb easily.
✗ You can easy find a job if you speak English.
• You can easily find a job if you speak English.
 
• This machine is comparatively easy to use.
• This problem should be easy enough for someone who's done physics at A level.
• She doesn't find it easy to talk about her problems.
• The irregularity of English spelling means that it is easy to make mistakes.
• The booklet presents explains things in an easy, non-technical way.
 
COMFORTABLE
2. comfortable or calm; free from worry, pain, etc
• They both retired and went off to lead an easy life in the Bahamas.
• I don't feel easy about leaving him alone in the house all day.
• With the harvest finished, I was able to relax with an easy mind/conscience.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Calm and relaxed
Idioms: Easy does it! ▪ I'm easy ▪ easier said than done ▪ easiest thing in the world ▪ easy as pie off a log ▪ easy come, easy go ▪ easy game ▪ easy on the eye ▪ go easy ▪ on easy street ▪ take it easy
Derived: easiness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton, gentle, comfortable, prosperous, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do, soft, easygoing, leisurely, slowly, slow, tardily, easily
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  uneasy, difficult, hard, quickly, rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apace