easygoing

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Etymology

From easy +‎ going.

Adjective

easygoing (comparative more easygoing or easygoinger or easiergoing, superlative most easygoing or easygoingest or easiestgoing)

  1. (of a person) Calm, relaxed, casual and informal.
    Synonyms: laid-back, happy-go-lucky; see also Thesaurus:carefree
    • 1897, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Pudd’nhead Wilson] Chapter X”, in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 126:
      He dropped gradually back into his old frivolous and easy-going ways and conditions of feeling and manner of speech, and no familiar of his could have detected anything in him that differentiated him from the weak and careless Tom of other days.
    • 1922, Edith Wharton, chapter XXIII, in The Glimpses of the Moon‎, New York, N.Y.: D Appleton and Company:
      He might, indeed, resent her behaviour too deeply to seek to see her at once; but his easygoing modern attitude toward conduct and convictions made that improbable. She had an idea that what he had most minded was her dropping so unceremoniously out of the Embassy Dinner.
    • 1989, Tony Parker, “Out at Garland”, in A Place Called Bird, London: Secker & Warburg, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 135:
      I’d sooner live here than in the middle of Bird, I think the folks here are more easygoinger than they are in town. I’m not saying they’re unkind to you, nothing like that: but if you’ve been hospitalised a long time, like I have, you get a label hung round your neck that says long-term psychiatric patient.
    • 1994, Carola Dunn, Captain Ingram’s Inheritance (The Rothschild Trilogy; 3), Large Print edition, Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Chivers, published 2011, →ISBN, page 320:
      If it weren’t for Mr Hoskins refusing to leave the master, Henriette’d be gone long since, and she’s the easygoingest creature for all she’s a foreigner.
    • 2016, Rose Lerner [pseudonym; Susan Roth], “Excerpt: True Pretenses”, in All or Nothing, →ISBN, page 161:
      Rafe was the easygoingest man in the world right up until he dug in his heels, and then there was no moving him.
  2. (of a journey or pace) Unhurried.
    Synonyms: leisurely, unhasty, unrushed

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