EASY

(NOT DIFFICULT) [adjective], [adverb] - not difficult; not needing much effortShe looked through the exam paper trying to find an easy question to answer.The book is called 'Ten Easy Ways to Health and Fitness'.Getting into the film business is not easy/far from easy/no easy matter.Would a ten o'clock appointment be easier for you?Let's run the last two miles at an easy (= not fast) pace.It's easy to find the house./The house is easy to find.She is very easy to talk to.The easiest thing (to do) is for us to take the train home.It isn't easy being a student these days, you know.The French team came an easy first in both races.(disapproving) I don't believe a word, when politicians come out with their easy (= too simple) answers.I don't trust that easy (= relaxed) charm of his.The two off-duty police officers were an easy target for the bombers.(slang) My car can do 250kph, easy.(informal) It's easy (for you) to laugh/criticize/say (= It's unfair of you to laugh/criticize/state an opinion, because you don't understand the situation), but you won't get blamed if anything goes wrong.See also ease (EASINESS).(informal) If you think that something is extremely easy, you can say that it is as easy as ABC/anything/pie/winking/falling off a log.(informal) "Why don't you just ask the government to pay?" "That's easier said than done (= easy to suggest but much more difficult to make happen)."(informal) Making bread is the easiest thing in the world (= extremely easy) after you've had some practice.(informal) Until he was caught, he used to say that stealing cars was easy money (= money that you get from only a little, usually dishonest, work).(informal) I like her paintings/songs - they're easy on the eye/ear (= very pleasant to look at/listen to).Clothes that are easy-care do not need special treatment when they are washed.(esp. UK slang) If you describe someone as easy game or easy meat (US usually an easy mark), you mean that they can be easily deceived.Old ladies living alone are easy game for con-men.The type of music that is described as easy listening is music that is not very complicated, serious or difficult.(UK informal) The expression easy-peasy is used esp. by children about something to mean that it is very easy.(informal) An easy touch is someone whom you can easily persuade or deceive into giving you something, usually money.