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Synonyms for easy-going


Grammar : Adj
Spell : ee-zee-goh-ing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈi ziˈgoʊ ɪŋ

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Définition of easy-going

Origin :
  • also easygoing, 1640s, originally of horses, from easy + going.
  • As in patient : adj capable, willing to endure
  • As in permissive : adj lenient
  • As in slack : adj lazy, negligent
  • As in soft : adj compassionate
  • As in unaffected : adj unchanged, unmoved
  • As in unpretentious : adj simple, honest
  • As in unsociable : adj unfriendly
  • As in breezy : adj easy, lighthearted
  • As in carefree : adj lighthearted, untroubled
  • As in adaptable : adj able and usually willing to change
  • As in complacent : adj contented
  • As in complaisant : adj agreeable
  • As in equable : adj steady, calm
Example sentences :
  • Jesse Brown, his foreman, seemed to be loyal, but he was easy-going and weak.
  • Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
  • Would n't it be hard for a good-tempered, easy-going fellow?
  • Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. » by Charles James Lever
  • The easy-going, relaxed attitude of Ricardo was really appalling.
  • Extract from : « Victory » by Joseph Conrad
  • He is unwilling, like most easy-going men, to inflict that kind of pain.
  • Extract from : « The Love Affairs of an Old Maid » by Lilian Bell
  • We were all a very genial, congenial party of easy-going geniuses.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland
  • An easy-going man, he did not cross bridges till he came to them.
  • Extract from : « The Highgrader » by William MacLeod Raine
  • But Quin shrugged his shoulders with a slow, easy-going laugh.
  • Extract from : « Quin » by Alice Hegan Rice
  • They take liberties, damnable liberties, because I am easy-going.
  • Extract from : « The Yellow Claw » by Sax Rohmer
  • Such a quiet, easy-going life these Firdale people seemed to lead.
  • Extract from : « We Two » by Edna Lyall
  • Oscar and me have always been easy-going and we've never made any fuss.
  • Extract from : « O Pioneers! » by Willa Cather

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