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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Affording pleasurable ease: comfortable, cozy, easeful, snug. Informal : comfy, soft. See GOOD. 2. Easily imposed on or tricked: credulous, dupable, exploitable, gullible, naive, susceptible. See WISE. 3. Posing no difficulty: effortless, facile, simple, smooth. Informal : snap. Idioms: easy as ABC, easy as falling off a log, easy as one-two-three, easy as pie, like taking candy from a baby, nothing to it. See EASY. 4. Unconstrained by rigid standards or ceremony: casual, easygoing, informal, natural, relaxed, spontaneous, unceremonious, unrestrained. Informal : laid-back. See PLAIN, TIGHTEN. 5. Not steep or abrupt: gentle, gradual, moderate. See RISE. 6. Requiring little effort or exertion: light2, moderate. See EASY. 7. Enjoying steady good fortune or financial security: comfortable, prosperous, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do. Informal : well-fixed. Idioms: comfortably off, in clover, on easy street. See RICH, THRIVE. 8. Marked by facility, especially of expression: effortless, flowing, fluent, fluid, graceful, smooth. See STYLE. 9. Not strict or severe: charitable, clement, forbearing, indulgent, lax, lenient, merciful, soft, tolerant. See ACCEPT. 10. Marked by an absence of conventional restraint in sexual behavior; sexually unrestrained: fast, libertine, light2, loose, wanton, whorish. See SEX.
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