easygoing

or eas·y-go·ing

[ ee-zee-goh-ing ]

/ ˈi ziˈgoʊ ɪŋ /

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Definition of easygoing

adjective

calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.

going easily, as a horse.

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Origin of easygoing

First recorded in 1665–75; easy + going

OTHER WORDS FROM easygoing

eas·y·go·ing·ness, noun

Words nearby easygoing

easy-care, easy chair, easy come, easy go, easy does it, easy game, easygoing, easy meat, easy money, easy-money policy, easy on the eyes, easy sledding

How to use easygoing in a sentence

Docile animals that cooperate in these ceremonies are kept around, reproducing longer and creating future generations with easygoing temperaments.
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Speaking in a low, easygoing drawl, she recalled playing make-believe in the woods, savoring plums fresh from the garden, spending summer evenings on the porch listening to the radio with one ear while eavesdropping on grown-ups with the other.
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Yet, beneath this avuncular, easygoing public persona, Beard was uncomfortable in his own skin.
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James Stepney, a 32-year-old senior customer-support technician from the Bronx, with a kind smile and an easygoing warmth around the office, had wanted to get in one last workout before New York’s gyms closed.
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The producer jovial and warm, taking the role of the easygoing partner, but fully in control of every single beat.
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"I'm easygoing," he says, sitting in the spotless, stylish living room of his suburban Baltimore home.
Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up|Tom Boswell|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If Palmer seems easygoing, it may be because that's how a "perfect" person should appear.
Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up|Tom Boswell|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His reviews, rightly, call him “sweet,” “demure,” “easygoing.”
Sex, Power, and Desire: The Life of America’s Next Top Escort|Scott Bixby|March 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Clark was a big, easygoing fellow, a plodder, a fifteen-year man with the highway patrol.
The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis|Richard Ben Cramer|January 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is incredibly multicultural and people, on the whole, are easygoing.
Literary City: Deborah Levy’s London|Henry Krempels|February 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The easygoing paternal rule was to come to an end, and a long period of bloodshed and turbulence was to succeed.
Argentina|W. A. Hirst
He was easygoing when at home on leave, or off on one of his outings, as he had been when she met him in New London.
Peggy Stewart at School|Gabrielle E. Jackson
The filth, the intolerable weariness, the instant necessity of the tasks, stagger the easygoing suburban reader.
Shandygaff|Christopher Morley
One easygoing housekeeper used to say that, in her opinion, there was a genius in slighting.
The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)|Marion Harland
He belonged to a world that she did not know—and yet he was so perfectly at home with her, so idly easygoing.
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British Dictionary definitions for easygoing

easy-going

/ (ˌiːzɪˈɡəʊɪŋ) /

adjective

relaxed in manner or attitude; inclined to be excessively tolerant

moving at a comfortable pacean easy-going horse

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