(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.
(v. t.) Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
(v. t.) Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.
(v. t.) Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.
(n.) A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment.
(n.) One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.
(n.) A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
(v. i.) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
(v. i.) To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
(v. t.) To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.
Example Sentences:
(1) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(2) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
(3) The real offense, for which no one has been charged, is the wanton disregard for human life that Manning exposed.
(4) We’re back to those flappers, with their jobs and their knee-length skirts and their dangerous opinions about politics, or the girls of the 1960s destroying the traditional family by wantonly taking the pill.
(5) Long said: "This is not an attack on an individual or on a party, but a wanton attack on the democratic process.
(6) In the 1930s the Spanish city of Guernica became a symbol of wanton murder and destruction.
(7) The wanton slaughter of two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq and the severe and even lethal torture of Afghan detainees generated, at worst, shockingly short jail time for the killers and, usually, little more than letters of reprimand.
(8) What distinguishes games from books, or films, is that the dodgy sexual politics and wanton violence of one is used as a stick to bash them all.
(9) "The president commiserates with all the families who lost loved ones in the heinous attacks and extends his heartfelt sympathies to all those who suffered injuries or lost their properties during the wanton assaults on Bauchi and Kaduna States," said a statement.
(10) But that doesn't mean that halting and reversing the wanton growth of shorthaul flights is an act of class war.
(11) Here in Bristol we could use the old railway lines that used to thread their way into the city, before Beeching and Marples ripped them up – another example of wanton government lack of foresight.
(12) To the contrary, they are the inevitable by-products of societies that recruit every institution in service of defending even the most wanton abuses by the state.
(13) Later at university, there were nice Protestant ladies and wanton atheists; taxpayer-funded Guinness and Spear of Destiny .
(14) Three hours of sexual and pharmacological excess, wanton debauchery, unfathomable avarice, gleeful misogyny, extreme narcotic brinksmanship, malfeasance and lawless behaviour is a lot to take, and some have complained of the film's relentlessness, which, if understood in formal terms, I think may be one of its main aims.
(15) Humankind must become accountable on a massive scale for the wanton destruction of our collective home.
(16) Young children were expected to carry out gruelling domestic chores and were wantonly punished, she says.
(17) An influential Communist party journal has compared online rumours to Cultural Revolution-style denunciations and warned of the need to curb "wanton defamation" of authority, as China intensifies its campaign to control social media.
(18) What we are seeing in London tonight, the wanton vandalism, smashing of windows, has nothing to do with peaceful protest."
(19) On the periphery of all the wanton lust and questionable puns stands Evie (Antonia Thomas), who’s pretty, sweet and has a camera; the holy trinity for chumps like Dylan.
(20) Following release of the Mosul video showing wanton destruction of antiquities, there has been a lot of email traffic between Libyans working in archaeology and Arab-world representatives on the major international heritage bodies,” said David Mattingly, a professor at the University of Leicester, who has spent years excavating Roman ruins in Libya.