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The Collaborative International Dictionary
easygoing

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.

Wiktionary
easygoing

a. 1 (context of a person English) calm, relaxed, casual and informal 2 (context of a journey or pace English) unhurried

WordNet
easygoing
  1. adj. inclined to be excessively tolerant

  2. unhurried and relaxed; "an easygoing pace"; "a mellow conversation" [syn: laid-back, mellow]

  3. not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace" [syn: easy, leisurely]

  4. not stressful; "an easygoing life as a parttime consultant"

  5. taking life easy; "an easygoing man rarely stirred to anger"; "an air of placid sufficiency" [syn: placid]

Usage examples of "easygoing".

I had seen briefly beneath the surface, and had a glimpse of a nature which, for all its easygoing charm, was both proud and prickly.

He was a happy, easygoing, reasonably athletic boy, with a serious penchant for 1 his studies which also pleased his mother.

Gabby was interested in all of them, and she looked like an open, easygoing, I happy person.

He had sandy hair and light eyes, and an easygoing smile, but the tension in his eyes, and a constant wary air belied his casual manner.

Like Cowboy, their driver, he was from the Northwest, and he had an easygoing, seemingly slow-moving style, but his men knew he could change to the speed of a rattlesnake about to strike in a single instant.

There were infinitesimal differences about each of them, and there was an aura of easygoing good nature about Victoria that more than bordered on mischief, and yet one would have been hard-pressed to tell them apart if one had to.

She was funnier and more easygoing than I had anticipated, and very bright.

The Ganymeans welcomed him in their characteristic easygoing manner, but it was clear that they were relieved to see him after his mishap of getting separated from the others.

Nixie smiled back at him in an easygoing way that said she could afford to wait until he changed his mind.

They were easygoing and did not believe too strongly in letting business interfere with pleasure.

Ish and Em would have urged him to stay permanently, but they feared the triangle-situation, even when the outsider was as easygoing and perceptive as Ezra.

Ish could remember, he had never seen the easygoing Ezra punish a child.

There was talk back and forth, and a good deal of easygoing fun-making, with a little horse-play among the younger people.

All too obviously, the easygoing nature of the community and the special attraction of bull-dodging had prevented much labor being performed.

George had been too stupid and Ezra too easygoing to offer any competition.