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FREE-AND-EASY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does free-and-easy mean?
• FREE-AND-EASY (adjective)
The adjective FREE-AND-EASY has 1 sense:
1. natural and unstudied
Familiarity information: FREE-AND-EASY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Natural and unstudied
Synonyms:
casual; free-and-easy
Context example:
lectured in a free-and-easy style
Similar:
informal (not formal)
Context examples
Haughty English, lively French, sober Germans, handsome Spaniards, ugly Russians, meek Jews, free-and-easy Americans, all drive, sit, or saunter here, chatting over the news, and criticizing the latest celebrity who has arrived—Ristori or Dickens, Victor Emmanuel or the Queen of the Sandwich Islands.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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