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EASYGOING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does easygoing mean?
• EASYGOING (adjective)
The adjective EASYGOING has 3 senses:
1. not hurried or forced
2. not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship
3. relaxed and informal in attitude or standards
Familiarity information: EASYGOING used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not hurried or forced
Synonyms:
Context example:
at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace
Similar:
unhurried (relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship
Synonyms:
Context example:
a soft job
Similar:
easy (posing no difficulty; requiring little effort)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relaxed and informal in attitude or standards
Context example:
an easygoing teacher who allowed extra time for assignments
Similar:
undemanding (requiring little if any patience or effort or skill)
Derivation:
easygoingness (being without worry or concern)
Context examples
Instinct made him step on the accelerator with the double purpose of overtaking Daisy and leaving Wilson behind, and we sped along toward Astoria at fifty miles an hour, until, among the spidery girders of the elevated, we came in sight of the easygoing blue coupé.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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