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Definition of Easy going
1. Noun. Easy unobstructed progress. "After we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing"
Generic synonyms: Advance, Advancement, Forward Motion, Onward Motion, Procession, Progress, Progression
Lexicographical Neighbors of Easy Going
Literary usage of Easy going
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... the stalwart fidelity of friendship, rare in these easy going, half-and-half,
non-committal days; such friendship as allowed no word of disparagement, ..."
2. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"... of an easy-going style) the substantive takes no article before it, because
it would have none if the attributive were dropped ; here the attributive is ..."
3. The Round Trip by Way of Panama Through California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah by John Codman (1879)
"THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD—THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS— EASY-GOING EMIGRANTS—GREELEY, ON
THE ROAD TO DENVER. On leaving California, after crossing the Sierras ..."
4. American Character by Brander Matthews (1906)
"easy-going; Herbert Spencer even denounced ... maintaining that Character we were
too good-natured, too easy-going, too tolerant of evil; and he insisted ..."
5. Piccadilly to Pall Mall: Manners, Morals, and Man by Ralph Nevill, Charles Edward Jerningham (1909)
"... labours of club servants have been much increased, members being in far more
of a hurry than was generally the case in the easy-going days of the past. ..."
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