Easiest way to cook corn on the cob

Also found in: Thesaurus, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia. Likely to happen by accident or easiest way to cook corn on the cob intention: It’s easy to slip on the wet floor. It’s easy to push the wrong button. Free from worry, anxiety, trouble, or pain: My mind was easy, knowing that I had done my best.

Socially at ease: an easy, good-natured manner. Less in demand and therefore readily obtainable: Commodities are easier this quarter. Plentiful and therefore at low interest rates: easy money. Without haste or agitation: Relax and take it easy for a while. In a restrained or moderate manner: Go easy on the butter.

Without much hardship or cost: got off easy with only a small fine. These adjectives mean requiring little effort or posing little if any difficulty. Facile stresses fluency stemming from preparation: the author’s facile use of literary conventions. Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Take it easy on the popcorn. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. Something that is easy can be done or achieved without effort or difficulty, because it is not complicated and causes no problems.

Both sides had secured easy victories earlier in the day. The comparative and superlative forms of easy are easier and easiest. This is much easier than it sounds. You can say that it is easy to do something. For example, instead of saying ‘Riding a camel is easy’, you can say ‘It is easy to ride a camel’. You can also say ‘A camel is easy to ride’. It is always very easy to be cynical about politics.

The house is easy to keep clean. Easy is not an adverb, except in the expressions go easy, take it easy, and easier said than done. If you want to say that something is done without difficulty, you say that it is done easily. Put things in a place where you can find them quickly and easily. The comparative and superlative forms of easily are more easily and most easily. Milk is digested more easily when it is skimmed.

This is the format that is most easily understood by customers. This is not an easy task. I was not altogether easy in my mind about this decision. She laughed and joked and made easy conversation with everyone.

She has had a very easy life. I guess we’ve always been too easy with our children. Your father was not an easy child,’ she told me. She was an easy target for con-men. Posing no difficulty:effortless, facile, simple, smooth. Idioms: easy as ABC, easy as falling off a log, easy as one-two-three, easy as pie, like taking candy from a baby, nothing to it. Requiring little effort or exertion:light, moderate.

Marked by facility, especially of expression:effortless, flowing, fluent, fluid, graceful, smooth. Affording pleasurable ease:comfortable, cozy, easeful, snug. Enjoying steady good fortune or financial security:comfortable, prosperous, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do. Idioms: comfortably off, in clover, on easy street.