easygoing
or eas·y-go·ing
[ee-zee-goh-ing]
- calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.
- going easily, as a horse.
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Origin of easygoing
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Contemporary Examples
"I'm easygoing," he says, sitting in the spotless, stylish living room of his suburban Baltimore home.
His reviews, rightly, call him “sweet,” “demure,” “easygoing.”
Clark was a big, easygoing fellow, a plodder, a fifteen-year man with the highway patrol.
It is incredibly multicultural and people, on the whole, are easygoing.
But Stefania is the chilliest, most easygoing 14-year-old in the world.
Historical Examples
This is exactly the point where our easygoing rationalist misses the mark.
Mountain MeditationsL. Lind-af-Hageby
She was so easygoing; had none of the push and self-assertiveness that get people ahead in business.
My AntoniaWilla Cather
Alan saw that Hawkes was tall, like himself; he walked with easygoing grace.
Starman's QuestRobert Silverberg
Third Memo—Behind his colloquial, easygoing (apparently careless) utterance, Mr. Holliday conceals a high quality of literary art.
Mince PieAuthor: Christopher Darlington MorleyRelease Date: October 10, 2004 [eBook #13694]Christopher Darlington Morley
Charles II was an easygoing and kindly man and hard to ruffle.
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