Meaning

(of a person) Calm, relaxed, casual and informal..

Definitions by Sense

1. (of a person) Calm, relaxed, casual and informal.
2. (of a journey or pace) Unhurried.

Example Sentences

He dropped gradually back into his old frivolous and easy-going ways and conditions of feeling and manner of speech, and no familiar of his could have detected anything in him that differentiated him from the weak and careless Tom of other days.

He might, indeed, resent her behaviour too deeply to seek to see her at once; but his easygoing modern attitude toward conduct and convictions made that improbable. She had an idea that what he had most minded was her dropping so unceremoniously out of the Embassy Dinner.

I’d sooner live here than in the middle of Bird, I think the folks here are more easygoinger than they are in town. I’m not saying they’re unkind to you, nothing like that: but if you’ve been hospitalised a long time, like I have, you get a label hung round your neck that says long-term psychiatric patient.

If it weren’t for Mr Hoskins refusing to leave the master, Henriette’d be gone long since, and she’s the easygoingest creature for all she’s a foreigner.

Rafe was the easygoingest man in the world right up until he dug in his heels, and then there was no moving him.

Word Forms

• more easygoing
• easygoinger
• easiergoing
• most easygoing
• easygoingest
• easiestgoing
• easy-going

Synonyms for easy going

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When Should You Use Easy going?

Use easy going when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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