ease
About 17.64 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Lack of difficulty; the ability to do something easily.
He played the ukelele with ease.
- noun Comfort, a state or quality lacking unpleasantness, particularly:
She enjoyed the ease of living in a house where the servants did all the work.
- noun Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes idleness, sloth.
She enjoyed the ease of living in a house where the servants did all the work.
- noun Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes indifference.
The pension set her mind at ease.
- noun Freedom from effort; leisure, rest.
We took our ease on the patio.
- noun Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
His inheritance catapulted him into a life of ease.
- noun Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
She dealt with the faculty with combined authority and ease.
- noun Relief, an end to discomfort, particularly: Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
Take one pill every 12 hours to provide ease from pain.
Similar words
allay alleviate relieve relief relaxation repose comfort easiness facilitate informality
Often followed by
of and with the in to his or as
Word family
eased easeful easefully eases easing
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