(v. t.) At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint
(v. t.) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy.
(v. t.) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind.
(v. t.) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.
(v. t.) Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing.
(v. t.) Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.
(v. t.) Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.
(v. t.) Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.
(v. t.) Moderate; sparing; frugal.
(v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight.
Example Sentences:
(1) It wasn’t an easy decision because I was born in Kingston, Jamaica,” acknowledged Aarons.
(2) This is an easy, safe, and rapid alternative for the emergent treatment of superior vena caval syndrome.
(3) A sensitive, selective and easy to use high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cicletanide, a new diuretic, in plasma, red blood cells, urine and saliva is described.
(4) It would be "very easy to manipulate and access one of our vehicles", he said.
(5) The method of sonicating L3 and Mf fragment antigens used in this study is simple, and its results are easy to observe.
(6) The schedule proposed is easy to use and reproducible.
(7) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.
(8) These high Danish rates seem to reflect the true prevalence and incidence in the less serious types of progressive muscular dystrophy, probably because the Danish health system with free medical care and easy access to specialized hospital departments makes it possible to identify all cases of progressive muscular dystrophy.
(9) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
(10) These plasmids allow expression of native or truncated forms of the enzyme and easy purification of the products.
(11) This approach permits easy preparation of input data on the dimensions of the blocks and their positions in a 3-D arrangement.
(12) Digital respirosonography provides an easy way to assess lung sound amplitudes, frequencies and timing over several breaths.
(13) Ultrasonic fragmentation through the pars plana is a quick and easy method for relieving the condition.
(14) Chemically induced transformation of the stable heteroploid cell line (F1706) was manifested by an easy to read focal alteration.
(15) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
(16) In conclusion, the indications are not often easy and is usually the object of a study of each case individually.
(17) "It is very easy to see somebody get killed over this issue," Marijuana Industry Group Director Michael Elliott testified last month.
(18) Not even housebuilders are entirely happy, although recent government policies such as Help to Buy and the encouragement of easy credit have helped their share prices rise.
(19) The teflon dish is re-usable, resistant to sterilization procedures, and easy to assemble.
(20) Protriptyline also widened the ventricular echo zone and allowed easy induction of long runs of ventricular tachycardia.
Effortless
Definition:
(a.) Making no effort.
Example Sentences:
(1) From the standpoint of computational vision, these phenomena are difficult to process, yet nonretarded persons perceive them effortlessly and without error.
(2) Marber achieved it with what seemed like effortless ease.
(3) Depressed patients have been reported to have deficits in "effortful," but not effortless, cognitive functions compared to healthy volunteers.
(4) His power isn't firestarting but something called "The Push", which is a bit like Jedi mind-control only not quite as cool and effortless.
(5) Praia da Fazenda arcs effortlessly across the wide bay from the small, traditional fishing village of Picinguaba.
(6) Tony Blair's effortless ability to enrage his many critics, especially on the left, was evident again when he popped up on BBC Radio 4's Today programme to insist that MPs' rejection of military action against Syria was not directly linked to the legacy of mistrust he bequeathed over the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
(7) Beyond court 73 Twitter was abuzz with idle speculation that one of the women lawyers present was clearly infatuated with Grant, effortlessly glamorous and with his spectacles off.
(8) Happy to talk for hours in a fashion seemingly effortless.
(9) Endoscopic removal of the stone, the easier part of the operation, can be carried out in a single session; but for larger stones which are less easy to cope with, it should be done a few days after creation of the fistula, when the tunnel has sufficiently indurated to permit effortless work.
(10) Subdivision and sweating is effortlessly creating more low wage jobs with zero hours .
(11) And she doesn't even have the good grace to conform to all the usual stereotypes: rather, she is clever, funny, down to earth, modest and effortlessly beautiful - not a scrap of make-up in sight.
(12) With a hint of Tom Cruise in Minority Report, this instinctive, futuristic control system allows users to tailor their screen (even the size of the keyboard) and move from function to function effortlessly and with style.
(13) These power-damaged people have been granted the chance to fulfil one of humankind's abiding fantasies: to vaporise their enemies, as if with a curse or a prayer, effortlessly and from a safe distance.
(14) 3.53am BST Spurs 70-49 Heat, 4:03 remaining, 3rd quarter Another great pass, this time by Boris Diaw (quietly having a podium game) who gets it to Tim Duncan for a one-hand slam and wow this looks effortless on San Antonio.
(15) The effortless selection of recombinants carrying inserts in both copies of the c1 restates the usefulness of this technique for selection of insertion deletion recombinants and underscores the rapid emergence of sequence identity at both ends of the reiterated regions of the S component as previously reported (Knipe et al., Proc.
(16) We found a new class of two-dimensional random textures with identical third-order statistics that can be effortlessly discriminated.
(17) After effortlessly overhauling the German Verena Schott in the final length of the women's 200m individual medley in a new world record time, Simmonds will be aiming to make it a hat-trick of gold medals on Tuesday in the 50m freestyle.
(18) "B aciato dalla grazia" – "kissed by good fortune" – is how Italians refer to those rare, fortunate individuals who always appear to effortlessly achieve what they want in life.
(19) My usual phone is a clunky (by comparison) Sony Ericsson that can take pictures and play music effortlessly, and may be able to do email – though how remains a mystery to me.
(20) Repeated noise at 1-4 cycles per second evokes an effortless heard rhythmic sensation which is often heard as "clanks" and "rasping."