{
    "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’."
}