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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
easy-going
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Our parents are pretty easy-going, and they don't mind if we stay out late.
▪ William did his best to maintain an easy-going, friendly relationship with everyone at camp.
▪ You were always so relaxed and easy-going. It was one of the things I liked about you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Always an easy-going person, Guy had no difficulty in making friends in any situation.
▪ Are you kind, considerate, easy-going, or out-going?
▪ But youngsters raised with nudism have a more easy-going attitude than those brought up the standard way, Michelle believes.
▪ In that we see Herbert's more easy-going temperament.
▪ In the first years he had easy-going jailers.
▪ That is because sensitive children, like all challenging children, have a wider range of behavior than more easy-going children.
▪ Usually an easy-going sort, Ashley angrily threw his helmet after both at-bats.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
easy-going

easygoing \eas"y*go`ing\, easy-going \eas"y-go`ing\([=e]z"[y^]*g[=o]`[i^]ng), a.

  1. Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; relaxed and casual; ease-loving; inactive. Contrasted with tense. [WordNet sense 2]

    Syn: degage, easy-going, laid-back.

  2. having a lax moral or disciplinary standard. [WordNet sense 1] strict

    Syn: lenient.

  3. unhurried; as, an easygoing pace. Opposite of hurried.

    Syn: easy, leisurely.

  4. unaggressive; as, his easygoing approach to business. Opposite of aggressive. [WordNet sense 4]

    Syn: low-pressure.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
easy-going

also easygoing, "good-natured," 1640s, from easy + going.

Wiktionary
easy-going

a. (alternative spelling of easygoing English)

Usage examples of "easy-going".

He was affable to everyone, easy-going, laughing a great deal and giving the impression of enjoying life in every way.

He was a man of a jovial and easy-going disposition, and with his look of health one would not have prophesied so soon an end as came to him.

I foresaw that her success would be insured by her beauty even more than by her talent, and, with my nature, I knew that I could never assume the character of an easy-going lover or of a compliant husband.

Belinda took after my mother in every way: cute face, red hair, easy-going personality, teeny frame.

Jonas found it hard to reconcile the easy-going Cadmus with the Light Bringer warrior before him.

The soreness of that disappointment was intensified when they saw this Western man in the White House, with so much of rustic manner and speech as still clung to him, meeting his fellow-citizens, high and low, on a footing of equality, with the simplicity of his good nature unburdened by any conventional dignity of deportment, and dealing with the great business of state in an easy-going, unmethodical, and apparently somewhat irreverent way.

No doubt his even, easy-going temperament, as well as sheer skill, was why he had survived in a high risk job.

The peace and plenty of the reign of the great Bretwalda Ethelbert had been almost destroyed by his easy-going son Eadbald.

And young Withers being very easy-going, and having fallen into a business which required no up-building, being already in its stride, most successful, he left a good many of the details to his compradore, and bragged about him a good deal, saying that indeed he had inherited from his uncle a most wonderful and competent man of affairs.

Valken was a short, stout, rubicund character, easy-going and a trencherman of some note, which may have accounted for the fact that although he was several years older than van Effen he was his junior in the service, a fact that worried Valken not at all.

Education is compulsory, and there is a rigid military service, and a show of public force everywhere which is quite unknown to our unneighbored, easy-going republic.

He lathered on sunscreen in the summer, did not smoke, never drank more than two beers or two glasses of wine in a single evening, and was too easy-going ever to develop heart disease due to stress.

He was a man of a jovial and easy-going disposition, and with his look of health one would not have prophesied so soon an end as came to him.

Aside from these there were a moon-faced Bengali babu, a dark Italian with flashing eyes and teeth, and a stout person of bovine Teutonic cast--the type that is sage, shrewd, easy-going when unopposed, but capable under provocation of exhibiting the most conscienceless brutality.

Mr Charet was less striking, and gave the impression that he was very easy-going when he wasn't worried.