How do you use the word "easy" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "easy": You are working too hard. Take it easy for a while. You always take things too easy.

Easy Meaning

/ˈiːzi/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjComfortable; at ease.

adjRequiring little skill or effort.

Sentence Examples

You are working too hard. Take it easy for a while.

You always take things too easy.

An easy way to make bread

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

slow soft clean

Antonyms:

difficult uneasy

CEFR Practice Quiz

The math homework was so ____ that I finished it in ten minutes.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

You are working too hard. Take it ____ for a while.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English esy, eesy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Anglo-Norman eisé from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), past participle of aisier (“to put at ease”), from aise (“empty space, elbow room, opportunity”), of uncertain origin. See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, auð-, Icelandic auð (adverb), auð-, all meaning "easy." More at ease, eath.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”" — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"Now the easiest sell in traveldom is made even easier." — 1963, American Society of Travel Agents, ASTA Travel News, volume 32, page 55:

"I realized this all too well when as a seminarian I got stuck with the job of recruiting the washees for a Maundy Thursday service. It's much easier to be the one down on the floor with the basin[…]" — 1995, Margaret Guenther, Toward Holy Ground, page 43:

"As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one." — 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2020:

"You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf." — 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:

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